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The amazing health benefits of the tomato

Posted by kemston | Tomato | Tuesday 6 April 2010 8:27 pm

The health benefit of tomato is quite considerable. Tomatoes, which are actually a fruit and not a vegetable, are loaded with all kinds of health benefits for the body. They are in fact, a highly versatile health product and due to their equally versatile preparation options, there’s really no reason to neglect the tomato as part of a healthy diet.
                                                                                             
One of the most well known tomato eating benefit is its’ Lycopene content. Lycopene is one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants. With the exception of pink (and only pink) grapefruit and watermelon and a few other foods that include only a tiny bit of it, our good friend the tomato includes lots of it.

Lycopene is a bright red carotenoid pigment, a phytochemical found red fruits and of course tomatoes.
It is part of the family of pigments called carotenoids, which are natural compounds that create the colours of fruits and vegetables. For example, beta carotene is the orange pigment in carrots (more…)

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Tomatoes and Broccoli Team Up to Fight Prostate Cancer

Posted by kemston | Antioxidant, Broccoli, Tomato | Saturday 3 April 2010 4:33 pm

Tomatoes and broccoli-two vegetables separately recognized for their cancer-fighting capabilities-are even more successful against prostate cancer when working as a team in the daily diet, shows a study published in Cancer Research.

“When tomatoes and broccoli are eaten together, we see an additive effect. We think it’s because different bioactive compounds in each food work on different anti-cancer pathways,” said John Erdman, Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois.

Starting one month before male rats were implanted with prostate tumors, Erdman and doctoral candidate Kirstie Canene-Adams fed the animals one of 5 different diets. Then they compared the cancer-preventive effects of the diets to treatment with finasteride, a drug commonly prescribed for men with enlarged prostates, or surgical castration. (more…)

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Stroke? Chew tomato seed

Posted by kemston | Tomato | Thursday 25 February 2010 11:51 am

Maybe up to this while cook, you favor discard seed tomato, since you insufficiently like its or cause you perceive disgust, particularly by slippery liquid one that espouse seed tomato. But, if you know its benefit, at terms next can so in recipes cuisine, you ever be espousing seed tomato.
 
One research that done by Rowett Research  Institute at  Aberdeen, Scots find benefit seed tomato to health.  As  one that quoted by magazine health Prevention, Asim K Dutta Roy, PhD,  researcher finds, liquid slippery or jelly chromatic yellow one that there be at around tomato seed, containing compound or efficacious mixture material to defy stroke and heart disease.

Research also get that if you drink juice tomato without discards its seed, therefore around 72% gratuity you have reduce its happening risk goring which can cause coronary.

Wow, the little seed that gets that mucus quite utilitarian..

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Tomatoes and Green Tea Team Up to Prevent Prostate Cancer

Posted by kemston | Antioxidant, Tea, Tomato | Friday 12 February 2010 5:26 pm

Choosing to eat lycopene-rich tomatoes and regularly drink green tea may greatly reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer, suggests research published the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Jian L, Lee AH, et al.). In this case-control study involving 130 prostate cancer patients and 274 hospital controls, men drinking the most green tea were found to have an 86% reduced risk of prostate cancer compared, to those drinking the least.

A similar inverse association was found between the men’s consumption of lycopene-rich fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, apricots, pink grapefruit, watermelon, papaya, and guava. Men who most frequently enjoyed these foods were 82% less likely to have prostate cancer compared to those consuming the least lycopene-rich foods.

Regular consumption of both green tea and foods rich in lycopene resulted in a synergistic protective effect, stronger than the protection afforded by either, the researchers also noted. (more…)

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