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Article: Can tomato sauce protect your heart? (research reveals that antioxidant lycopene found in tomato sauce protects against heart attacks)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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People looking for a good guilt-free reason to eat pizza might relish results of a major study in nine European countries that analyzed fat samples taken from 1.379 men who suffered heart attacks and compared them with samples from healthy control subjects. Researchers found that an antioxidant compound called lycopene appeared to have a protective effect against heart attacks. The chief source of lycopene in the average diet is tomato sauce, and the food many Americans get most of their tomato sauce from is pizza.
"Based on our findings, and other research showing lycopene can be an excellent antioxidant. we recommend that people eat tomato-based cooked ...
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