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Whole Foods Better Than Supplements for Health

  • November 05, 2003

Last year a Harvard study including nearly 48,000 men found that eating tomato sauce a couple of times a week may reduce prostate cancer risk. Lycopene appears to be the active ingredient in tomatoes responsible for this effect. However, many then made the mistake of translating this research to taking lycopene supplements. But new research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that lycopene's effect is boosted by other chemicals in the fruit. This research supports...