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Here's another look at the exciting new researching showing the powerful cancer prevention effects of common vegetables like broccoli and tomatoes. The bottom line? Foods prevent cancer far better than prescription drugs, but only if you eat them in combination.
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Eating tomatoes and broccoli together may offer better protection against cancer than eating either alone, say US researchers.
- Rats fed both foods together had less prostate cancer growth than rats fed either tomatoes or broccoli.
- Dr Erdman, professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois, said: "We decided to look at these foods in combination because we believed it was a way to learn more about real diets eaten by real people.
- "People don't eat nutrients, they eat food.
- His team had previously found rats fed lycopene - the chemical in tomatoes thought to fight cancer - were not afforded greater protection against prostate cancer.
- Dr Erdman's team examined how different food and nutrient combinations affected the growth of prostate tumours in rats.
- A final group of rats was fed a normal diet and given a drug commonly prescribed to men with benign growth of the prostate which is also being tested for its potential to prevent prostate cancer.
- "This research supports previous dietary studies showing that eating a diet rich in vegetables and fruits protects men from prostate cancer.
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