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| The pigment that colors
tomatoes and watermelons, Lycopene is perhaps the strongest and most
underrated carotenoid. Like Beta-Carotene,
it it protects LDL cholesterol from oxidizing and building up on artery
walls. Some research suggest it may be even more important than Beta-Carotene
for heart health.(1)
Lypene may also extend up to ten times more cancer protection than its more famous carotenoid partner, according to lab estimates. It's particularly effecive against cancer of the breast, lung, endometrium, and prostate.(2) Smokers with low Lycopene levels had four times more lung cancer than those with the highest levels.(3) Of some five hundred carotenoids tested in a study of prostate cancer risk among a group of 47,894 men, only Lycopene, the most abundant carotenoid found in the prostate, demonstrated any protective ability. For men who ate two daily servings of tomato-containing foods (although not whole tomatoes or tomato juice), the prostate cancer risk was reduced by 35 percent.(4) Fats or oils are necessary for dietary Lycopene to be absorbed. What a long way we've come from a century ago, when people thought tomatoes were poisonous!
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(1) Snodderly, D., American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition, 1995; 62S: 1448-61.
(2) Levy, J., et al., Nutrition and Cancer, 1995; 24:257-66.
(3) Medical Tribune, May 22,1997; 32.