, a new study has found extracted from tomatoes an antioxidant lycopene, can - effectively prevent strokes and heart disease. University of Cambridge, UK, a subsidiary company has made with the extract one food supplements, the earliest will go on sale in July this year.
lycopene is containing substances, tomato skins appearing after red tomato maturity is because contain this substance. But direct eat tomatoes, human body is not too easy to absorb lycopene.
Cambridge university researchers say, lycopene can reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease, because it will prevent low density lipoprotein (also called bad cholesterol) clog the blood vessels. In trials, they make about 150 heart patients a daily dose of lycopene supplements, 8 weeks after test results show that patients bad cholesterol levels in the blood reduced to almost nil.
researchers said, test shows that in this supplements reduce the effect may be bad cholesterol than other statins drugs.
but also have experts to this supplements cautious attitude think should be in many clinical trials are proof on the strokes and heart disease effectively, can let the patient use.
