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Tomatoes Protect Against Cancer ANI, Hindustan Times September
7 Sydney, Australia -
Tomatoes are protection against prostate cancer and sausages and salami
several times a week may increase the risk of a range of cancers, says a
10-year study of 40,000 Australians. In the biggest
Australian medical experiment so far, the first results are emerging on
the link between cancer and diet. Supporting similar
research, early results show that large amounts of red meat are not good,
while chicken and fish have no cancer link. According to a
report in Sydney Morning Herald, the project began in the late 1980s when
a Cancer Council Victoria epidemiologist, Graham Giles, began researching
how diet and lifestyle affected cancer. In the early 1990s, Giles and his
team recruited 42,000 Melburnians, one-third of whom were born in southern
Europe and were likely to eat a Mediterranean diet. Cancer samples from
the 2000 recruits who have died are being re-examined, to determine
the type of disease involved. The aim is to tackle the aggressive cancers
and find out what causes them, who is at risk and how to prevent them. “We also want to
identify components of lifestyle that are associated with healthy ageing;
and, having done that, we can try and promote those sort of
behaviours,” Giles said. The retesting of 40,000 recruits, which began a few months ago, is likely to take another three years. Copyright
© 2002 Global Action on Aging
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