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Although an item about the supposed cancer-curing properties of lemons was originally circulated with a tag line suggesting that it had been issued by Baltimore's Health Sciences Institute (a subsidiary of Newmarket Health, which is located at 819 N. Charles Street in Baltimore), that agency has denied any connection to this piece: It is true in a general sense that lemons (and citrus fruits in general) provide a number of useful nutritional and health benefits, as described in the Encyclopedia of Healing Foods: Several academic papers published in the last decade have also suggested that lemons, as well as other citrus fruits, might possess some substantial anti-cancer properties. For example, a 2002 report on the medicinal use of citrus issued by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences noted that: Likewise, a 2000 paper from University of California Davis on The Potential of Citrus Limonoids as Anticancer Agents observed that: And a 2004 ScienceDaily article reported on similar research from Texas A&M University's Kingsville Citrus Center: However, the best that can be said at this point is that citrus fruits may potentially harbor anti-cancer properties that could help ward off cancer. No reputable scientific or medical studies have reported that lemons have definitively been found to be a proven remedy against cancers of all types, nor has any of the (conveniently unnamed) world's largest drug manufacturers reported discovering that lemons are 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy and that their ingestion can destroy malignant [cancer] cells. All of those claims are hyperbole and exaggeration not supported by facts.
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