Health

Healthy Tomato-Hearty Tomato~

A TOMATO is red and usually has four chambers,just like

our heart. Tomatoes are also a great source of lycopene, a

plant chemical that reduces the risk of heart disease and

several cancers. 

The Women’s Health Study – an American research

programmed which tracks the health of 40,000 women

– found women with the highest blood levels of lycopene had 30 per cent

less heart disease than women who had very little lycopene.

Lab experiments have also shown that lycopene helps

counter the effect of unhealthy LDL cholesterol.

One Canadian study,

published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine, 

said there was convincing evidence that

lycopene prevented coronary heart disease