'Tomato treatment' slows cancer

'Tomato treatment' slows cancer
Researchers say an artificial version of the pigment that gives tomatoes their colouring could help treat prostate cancer. The product used in the research is a lycopene supplement called LycoVit.

Although more research was needed before doctors could say if a combined lycopene and vitamin E treatment could be given to healthy men to prevent them developing prostate cancer, recent findings of research carried out on mice tied in with other studies suggest that lycopene and vitamin E could protect against the disease.
"Therefore we would certainly recommend that all men regularly eat lycopene and vitamin E-rich foods - for example, all kinds of processed tomato products, papayas, pink grapefruit and watermelon, wheat germs, whole grains, mangoes, leafy green vegetables, nuts and olive oils," said Dr Jacqueline Limpens, from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Holland.
She went on to say “Of course, this needs to be part of an all-round healthy lifestyle and diet with plenty of vegetables and other healthy foods."

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