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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 07:55 am

First, the good news:  Not only does lycopene, found in tomatoes, have an inhibitory effect on prostate cancer, but now it's been learned that so does xanthohumol, found in beer.

Now the bad news:

"[...] the 17 beers and four large pizzas [per day] needed to get enough xanthohumol and lycopene to help prevent prostate cancer is unfortunately not advised", according to the National Prostate Cancer Coalition....

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 04:03 pm (UTC)
Are these nutrients found in anything else, so that one might get them from a balanced diet?

Oh, and pasta and salad is probably a better way to get tomatoes than pizza :)