Tomatoes reduce risk of prostate cancer

From the BBC:

Exciting research was announced on Wednesday, suggesting that a regular diet of tomatoes may help in the fight to lower the risk of prostate cancer in men. A study out of the United Kingdom (UK) says that men who consume at least 10 portions of tomatoes in their diet each week reduce their risk for prostate cancer by nearly 20 percent.

Worldwide, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among males. In the UK, there are around 35,000 new cases and nearly 10,000 deaths each year. Nutrition and cancer experts believe that a high-salt/high-fat Westernized diet is linked to the higher prostate cancer rate in developed countries like the UK and the United States. To lower the risk of cancer, health and nutrition experts state that a diet low in fat, salt, and processed and red meats and high in vegetables and fruits, including tomatoes may help.

Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Bristol studied the diets of 12,005 men without cancer and 1,806 men with prostate cancer between the age of 50 and 69. By following the diet and lifestyle of the 20,000 men, researchers were able to determine that a weekly diet that included 10 portions of tomatoes, along with other fruits and vegetables reduced the cancer risk in the cancer free men in the study.

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