News Flash: Betel Linked to Scleroderma?Whorl

They Have Scientists The May 31 issue of Science News reports that researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons and Dental Science at Kings College in London have found that BETUL NUTS contain large amounts of COPPER, a substance which has been linked to cancer, liver disease, and SCLERODERMA. What is it about this mysterious CHEMical which connects two seemingly unrelated BIOlogical phenomena, so reminiscent of a marble urn in which are planted both roses and mint? -r. (ok, maybe not THAT reminiscent)