Food combination:
Tomato with broccoli
Effect:
Lower prostate cancer risk
Background:
A study made by University of Illinois showed that tomato and broccoli together may lower the risk of prostate cancer. The combination of these two ingredients even decreased the size of tumors on some test subjects.
Now we've known for a long time that tomatoes and broccoli are loaded with healthy substances like the lycopene in tomatoes and the phytochemicals in broccoli but finding out that these positive effects can be even boosted to an extent is interesting. Of course one should not consider broccoli as a full-blown cancer cure but instead realize the potential of this food combination in advancing health in general.
Broccoli is not the favorite of all kids but there are simply wonderful ways of cooking broccoli present in food tradition. Try for example this mediterranian way of cooking the two ingredients!
The Illinois study was made on rats and the test setup makes it difficult to confirm the findings on people - but there is good reasons to think the same combination would work on people.
Other related readings:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070724161644.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110913091559.htm
Photos (cc):
Tomatoes by St0rmz, broccoli by jules
Now we've known for a long time that tomatoes and broccoli are loaded with healthy substances like the lycopene in tomatoes and the phytochemicals in broccoli but finding out that these positive effects can be even boosted to an extent is interesting. Of course one should not consider broccoli as a full-blown cancer cure but instead realize the potential of this food combination in advancing health in general.
Broccoli is not the favorite of all kids but there are simply wonderful ways of cooking broccoli present in food tradition. Try for example this mediterranian way of cooking the two ingredients!
The Illinois study was made on rats and the test setup makes it difficult to confirm the findings on people - but there is good reasons to think the same combination would work on people.
Other related readings:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070724161644.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110913091559.htm
Photos (cc):
Tomatoes by St0rmz, broccoli by jules
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