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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

HUNAN, Central China — Chewing a betel nut like a piece of gum, it first tastes of maltose syrup oozing from a wooden twig. Then, suddenly, something strong strikes your tongue and thousands of ...

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 ...

The research analyzed the data obtained by the 2001 National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan that covered all the administrative divisions in Taiwan. Multistage stratified systematic sampling design ...

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 ...