2/13/2012

Tomatoes Prevent Cancer


Tomatoes and products derived from tomatoes such as marinara and pizza sauce are both good for health, as well as relatively low in fat and calories also has a high nutrient content, including potassium, vitamins A and C.

There is some evidence to support that the spaghetti sauce and other tomato products than offer protection against certain cancers and other conditions of decline. Among other research conducted at Harvard University of Public Health reveals a man who ate tomatoes, 45% less likely to get prostate cancer.

Scientists believe that lycopene content in tomatoes that gives red tomatoes is an antioxidant that much has compared the efficacy of beta-carotene.

As with other antioxidants, lycopene protects the body from free radicals, destructive cells are formed in the body due to pollution, smoking, and ultra violet rays. Lycopene may help of cell damage that can result in cancer and other diseases. Lycopene is also found in fruit / other foods such as red grapes, watermelon and papaya, but tomatoes are still by far the richest source of lycopene.

Amazingly, it turns out that crushed tomatoes or cooked it seemed a better source of lycopene than raw tomatoes. The researchers speculate that cooked tomatoes or lycopene spend more destroyed so easily absorbed by the body, such as spaghetti sauce, pizza, and other foods made from tomatoes that have been processed.

Tomato juice is also good as far as packaged in bottles or cans. As with other nutrients in the carotenoid family, lycopene is fat soluble. That means your body will more easily absorb if you eat tomatoes with a little vegetable oil.