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Posted 8/28/2014 11:12 AM (GMT 0)
Study reports that 10 servings of tomatos per week lowered the risk of PCa 18 percent.


www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/16860/20140828/intake-of-tomato-rich-diet-found-to-lower-prostate-cancer-risk.htm
Posted 8/28/2014 12:27 PM (GMT 0)
You can also get lycopene from grapefruits and watermelons, it's what gives those products their red color. The RO I saw at Emory when my psa rose to 0.07 told me to eat 2 spoons of tomato paste each day. For some reason heat or cooking brings out the lycopene in products like sauses, paste, ketchup. He mentioned that you couldn't eat enough raw tomatos to get what you could get in two spoons of paste.
Posted 8/28/2014 3:36 PM (GMT 0)
I have understood that cooked tomatoes provide the best dose of Lycopene. Myers recommends Lycopene supplements with each meal. I love raw tomatoes and eat them daily in salads and have all my life. I also love sauce and have it at least weekly, usually with pasta. Just think how bad my PCa would have been had I been an abstainer!!
Posted 8/28/2014 7:15 PM (GMT 0)
Is there a benefit for those that have had a reoccurance or do these studies only show a benefit for those never diagnosed with PC?
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