Betel nuts, or areca nuts, have been classified as a human carcinogen, meaning that there’s sufficient evidence that they cause cancer, says Yvette Paulino, associate professor at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betel nut prices fluctuate frequently. In this stall in Port Moresby they sell for one kina per nut (20 pence) - Torbjörn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mong Shuan was just 16 when she turned to an unconventional source of income: selling betel nuts from a little stall in northern ...

The women are mostly in their early 20s. They have children at home. Selling betel nut — an addictive, natural chew — to passersby in mountain towns of Papua New Guinea is a good way to earn a living.

An ongoing trial to help people quit chewing betel nut has seen success, with about 40 percent of those in an intervention program quitting within six months, researchers said during a presentation ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Lee sits on a bar stool in a plexiglass box near a highway offramp in central Taiwan. It’s late afternoon and the 29-year-old is dressed in a red negligee, a fake rose planted firmly ...

The latest research on betel nut and its links to cancer will be presented at the University of Guam Thursday. A community seminar will be held at the UOG School of Business & Public Administration ...

Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which give a natural high. But sales are falling Many cities across southern China are known for ...

For hundreds of millions of people around the world, chewing betel nut produces a cheap, quick high but also raises the risk of addiction and oral cancer. Now, new findings by a University of Florida ...

While I was in a South Florida garden years ago, my eye was caught by brilliant flecks of color dotting the closely cropped grass. They were the red fruit of a 25-foot-tall betel nut palm that cast ...