Health & Wellness

Hidden Health Benefits of Papayas

| January 3, 2012
Podcast episode

John Schieszer’s The Medical Minute

Papaya

A papaya a day may help cancer at bay. John Schieszer has the story with The Medical Minute.

Eating papayas may help lower a person’s overall cancer risk. John Schieszer reports (click the play button on the left to hear the podcast or download it to your computer by clicking on the link below it).

For more information on the Medical Minute please email John Schieszer:

medminutes@aol.com

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