Tomato Juice Can Make Bones Stronger

This is a good way to make bones stronger so that we will avoid the risk of osteoporosis, drink tomato juice every day. Lycopene, the antioxidant content in tomato fruit, believed to be the experts as the cause bones to grow stronger. Previously known lycopene beneficial to prevent prostate cancer in men and also prevent heart disease.

In a study conducted in Canada, the experts asked for 60 people or post-menopausal women around the age of 50-60 years to stop the consumption of tomato products from the daily menu for a month. Apparently it does increase levels of N-telopeptide in the blood, which is a chemical that is released the body in the blood when there is a broken bone.

Then, during four months of study respondents were given tomato juice containing 15 mg of lycopene per day, as well as plus 35 mg capsule of lycopene. As a control group is respondents who received a placebo capsule. The result is N-telopeptide levels in women who drank tomato juice or lycopene capsules dropped dramatically. But the benefits were not obtained by women who consumed a placebo capsule.

As a precaution, experts recommend the consumption of two glasses of tomato juice every day. Results were published in the journal Osteoporosis International. De Vet et al in 1991 reported that women who eat tomatoes at least three pieces a week, the risk of cervical bone cancer 40 percent lower than those not eating. Helzlsouer et al in 1996 reported that 7.4 percent of the consumption of lycopene reduces the risk of uterine cancer.