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Tomato Broccoli Diet Shrinks Enlarged ProstateOther rats in the study received either tomato or broccoli powder alone; or a supplemental dose of lycopene, the red pigment in tomatoes thought to be the effective cancer-preventive agent in tomatoes; or finasteride, a drug prescribed for men with enlarged prostates. Another group of rats was castrated. After 22 weeks, the tumors were weighed. The tomato/broccoli combo outperformed all other diets in shrinking prostate tumors. Biopsies of tumors were evaluated at The Ohio State University, confirming that tumor cells in the tomato/broccoli-fed rats were not proliferating as rapidly. The only treatment that approached the tomato/broccoli diet's level of effectiveness was castration, said Erdman. "When tomatoes and broccoli are eaten together, we see an additive effect. We think it's because different bioactive compounds in each food work on different anti-cancer pathways," said University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor John Erdman. Erdman said the study showed that eating whole foods is better than consuming their components. "It's better to eat tomatoes than to take a lycopene supplement," he said. "And cooked tomatoes may be better than raw tomatoes. Chopping and heating make the cancer-fighting constituents of tomatoes and broccoli more bioavailable." How much tomato and broccoli should a 55-year-old man concerned about prostate health eat in order to receive these benefits? The scientists did some conversions. "To get these effects, men should consume daily 1.4 cups of raw broccoli and 2.5 cups of fresh tomato, or 1 cup of tomato sauce, or ½ cup of tomato paste. I think it's very doable for a man to eat a cup and a half of broccoli per day or put broccoli on a pizza with ½ cup of tomato paste," said Canene-Adams. Authors of the tomato/broccoli study are Kirstie Canene-Adams, Brian L. Lindshield, Elizabeth H. Jeffery, and John W. Erdman Jr. at the University of Illinois and Shihua Wang and Steven K. Clinton of The Ohio State University. The study was funded by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The U of I study of the effects of tomato carotenoids on serum testosterone was published in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. Authors are Jessica K. Campbell, Chad K. Stroud, Manabu T. Nakamura, Mary Ann Lila, and John W. Erdman Jr. Funding was provided by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute. Note: This article has been adapted from a news release issued by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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