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.Sounds like it sure beats the alternative.
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.
posted by nattietodd @ 10:36 AM
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