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Men: eat your veggies

Men should eat their vegetables, especially a comination of tomato and broccoli to help ward off prostate cancer according to a new study. Of course the study was done with rats, but some women feel that is appropriate.

Exerpt:

University of Illinois researchers fed a diet containing 10 percent broccoli powder and 10 percent tomato powder to a group of rats that had been implanted with prostate cancer cells. Other groups of rats received either tomato powder or broccoli powder alone; a supplemental dose of lycopene (the red pigment in tomatoes believed to be an anti-cancer agent); or finasteride, a drug prescribed for men with enlarged prostates. Another group of rats was castrated.

After 22 weeks, the researchers found that the combined tomato/broccoli diet was the most effective at prostate tumor reduction. Of the other treatments, castration was the only one that came close to being as effective.

Sounds like it sure beats the alternative.

posted by nattietodd @ 10:36 AM