Article: The Mediterranean miracle: tomato sauce.(recipe)(Brief article)

Everyone's looking for the next miracle cure, but who would think you could find it on the shelf of your grocery store? Tomato sauce, it turns out, has an incredible range of health benefits. It has lycopene, which is a very potent antioxidant. Also--and we don't know why this is--ten tablespoons of tomato sauce a week decreases your risk of prostate cancer by about 40 percent. In addition, it's one of the strongest agents we know of to keep your arteries young. It works by reducing the size of cholesterol plaques in your blood vessels, which helps prevent clots and blockages. People who eat those ten tablespoons a week have blood pressure that is lower by 8 over 5 mmHg. ...

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