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[Amelia Hayner <abhayner@gmail.com>]

WOW so it does, in my husbands as well.
his mother was developing it.. and his uncle had it for most of his life.
I guess that this is one of the foods you eat on an occasional basis
Amy

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net
> wrote:

> Amy,
> Pawpaws, yuck.  I agree with you on this.  We did find a grove of pretty
> nice ones, rather banana like in texture and pretty good eating.  I thought
> that was what they were all like till I encountered the selections from the
> Ky planting.  They were big fat things with a texture like pudding and the
> flavor did nothing for me.  I brought some home and my husband and I both
> had the runs the next day.  After I found out that the cancer fighting
> compound in them also can cause Parkinsons', I lost all interest.  Obviously
> few of the people who ate lots of pawpaws ever developed Parkinsons, but it
> runs in my family.    Donna
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