The founder of the Fast 800 and advocate of the 5:2 diet has given his thoughts
There are over 200 different types of cancer and it's estimated that one in two people will develop some form of cancer during their life. However, making simple lifestyle changes such as eating healthily and exercising regularly can significantly reduce your risk of developing it, The Mirror reports.
Speaking on his BBC Sounds podcast, Just One Thing, Dr Mosley explained that tomatoes contain an anti-oxidant known as lycopene, which is thought to be a key compound in the prevention of cancers. If you cook tomatoes before you eat them, the heat breaks down the fruit's thick cell walls and means the lycopene is more accessible to your body.
During his podcast, Dr Mosley spoke to Professor Richard van Breemen from Oregon State University in the US, who is an expert on tomatoes and the ways in which they reduce cancer. Professor van Breeman explained: "Lycopene as an anti-oxidant is so potent that it might help prevent cancer at the start."
He said: "Over the last 20 years, there's been quite a few investigations about whether lycopene has anti-cancer properties. I learned about a connection between cancer and lycopene from a long-term study with male physicians where the men who ate the most lycopene in the form of tomato sauce, tomato paste, and fresh tomatoes had the lowest incidence of prostate cancer.
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