Contributes to the ongoing debates about how the risk of cancer is related to the kinds of food people eat, the methods of preparation and cooking, and additives and pesticides. The apparently cancer-deterring Mediterranean diet is highlighted, and not only because it was Naples where the 17 papers

This book contains the scientific contributions presented at an International Symposium held in Sorrento, Italy, in June 1988 under the auspices of the University of Naples, the Italian Society of Biochemistry, and the National Research Council. The modern history of polyamines dates back to 1958 when the Tabors and Rosenthal first described the outlines of their biological synthesis. From then on, and particularly in the last ten years, a veri table explosion of Literature, characterized by thousands of papers, has witnessed the interest of the scientific community toward these molecules....