Tomatoes and soy foods may be more effective in preventing prostate cancer when they are eaten together than when either is eaten alone.
May 8/Urbana, Ill./University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences -- Tomatoes and soy foods may be more effective in preventing prostate cancer when they are eaten together than when either is eaten alone, said a University of Illinois study.
"In our study, we used mice that were genetically engineered to develop an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Even so, half the animals that had consumed tomato and soy had no cancerous lesions in the prostate at study's end. All the mice in the control group--no soy, no tomato--developed the disease," said John Erdman, a U of I professor of food science and nutrition.