Eating broccoli and tomato has, for some time, been highly recommended for preventing and fighting cancer. However, recent researchers from Illinois and Ohio Universities1 have found combining the tomato and broccoli in the daily diet more effective in reducing prostate cancerous tumour growths than either tomato or broccoli eaten alone.
Even for those who don’t have prostate cancer there is mounting evidence that combining tomato and broccoli in your daily diet could reduce the risk of contracting prostate and other cancers.
The researchers compared the single effect of tomato powder and the single effect of broccoli powders added to the diet of rats and compared this with a combination of 10% tomato and 10% broccoli powders. The discovered that the combined powders acted in a complementary fashion and decreased tumour weight by more than a half (52%). This was favourably comparable to the much more radical and intrusive approach of castration. It is expected that these excellent results achieved with rats could be replicated in human males.
It was estimated that in 2006 prostate cancer accounted for over a third of all new cancer cases and almost 10% of deaths in United States men. While the roles of fruit and vegetables has been intensively studied in the past, researchers have typically examined specific chemical components derived from fruits and vegetables to isolate the specific cancer fighting agents rather than the whole of fruit or vegetable approach.
Cancer is a disease that can form when the body lacks critical substances. These substances can be found in different types of vegetables and fruits and are metabolically essential for the normal protection of the body. Therefore it is essential to eat a diverse variety of fruits and vegetables as they contain the nutrients that work together in subtle synergy offering the best possible disease protective effect.
For example, tomatoes contain tomato carotenoid, a known cancer fighter, but also thousands of different phytochemicals which stimulate anti-cancer activity in the body. Likewise broccoli, a member of the cruciferous vegetables, contains sulphur compounds that are known to be a mechanism that delays cancer growth. By combining these two known vegetables together they provide a powerful anti-cancer effect.
So how much do I need to eat to gain the benefits?Eating both broccoli and tomato daily is all that is required to obtain the anti-cancer benefits. It is suggested that men should regularly eat servings of up to three quarters of a head of broccoli and two to three tomatoes at least five times per week to help fight the disease. Cooked tomatoes may be better than raw. Simply put, eating a variety of fruits and vegetables prepared in a variety of ways will give you the best chance of cancer survival and good health.
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