title: Coevolution between human's anticancer activities and functional foods from crop origin center in the world.
abstract: Cancer is the leading cause of death around the world. Anticancer activities from many functional food sources have been reported in years, but correlation between cancer prevalence and types of food with anticancer activities from crop origin center in the world as well as food source with human migration are unclear. Hunger from food shortage is the cause of early human evolution from Africa to Asia and later into Eurasia. The richest functional foods are found in crop origin centers, housing about 70% in the world populations. Crop origin centers have lower cancer incidence and mortality in the world, especially Central Asia, Middle East, Southwest China, India and Ethiopia. Asia and Africa with the richest anticancer crops is not only the most important evolution base of humans and origin center of anticancer functional crop, but also is the lowest mortality and incidence of cancers in the world. Cancer prevention of early human migrations was associated with functional foods from crop origin centers, especially Asia with four centers and one subcenter of crop origin, accounting for 58% of the world population. These results reveal that coevolution between human's anticancer activities associated with functional foods for crop origin centers, especially in Asia and Africa.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China E-mail : zengyw1967@126.com.
authors.forename: Ya-Wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Xiao-Ying
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Pu
authors.forename: Jia-Zhen
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Shu-Ming
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiao-Meng
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D004032:Diet; D055951:Functional Food; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*