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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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