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Tomatoes no help in preventing prostate cancer.(NUTRITION & FITNESS NEWSBRIEFS)

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You can take tomatoes off the list of foods that may lesson your chances of getting prostate cancer. A study in a recent issue of Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that lycopene, an antioxidant found in tomatoes and ketchup, is not effective. Researchers examined the records of more than 28,000 men for a period of eight years. Although 1,320 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed during that time, there were no significant …

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