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We have talked about the multiple benefits of some components of curry before.  Some may help to reduce diabetes and other slow down the effects of Alzheimer’s, but now there is news that links curry to the battle against breast cancer. Scientists at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, have found that curcumin – a spice used to make turmeric and present in almost every type of curry – shrinks tumors in mice by about a third and slows the rate at which cancerous cells reproduce. However, the bad news: this doesn’t mean that eating lots of curry is the answer.  When we eat curry, most of the spice gets broken…