Likes to eat tomatoes? Good news for you. For a recent study says that eating tomatoes can reduce the risk of heart disease by 26 percent.
According to researchers, the components of lycopene in tomatoes is an antioxidant and red giver is efficacious compounds that lower the risk of heart disease. The experts from Tufts University in Boston precisely delivered, eat foods rich in lycopene for years a powerful protective effect on the heart.
In the study, experts from Tufts University compared health records of hundreds of patients with heart disease program called the Framingham Offspring Study. During that time, the patient's diet, especially eating habits tomatoes, analyzed by researchers.
As a result, eating foods containing lycopene for 11 years on a regular basis can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 26 percent. But there is no any impact to the risk of stroke.
"Indeed, this study linked the efficacy of lycopene and the risk of heart disease. Yet we need to do further research to determine whether other components in tomato also has efficacy in lowering the risk of heart disease," the researchers wrote in the British Journal of Nutrition, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail (05/02).
Meanwhile, other studies have never proved that tomatoes are also effective against depression and reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men.
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