Tomato Can Strengthen Bones

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There are the most delicious ways you can make bones stronger so you can avoid the  osteoporosis disease. The way is to drink tomato juice every day.

Antioxidant content of tomato fruit, namely: lycopene. The experts believe that Lycopene causes bones to grow stronger. On being before lycopene has been found very useful for the prevention of prostate cancer in men and also may prevent heart disease.

In a study conducted in Canada, some experts ask 60 people to discontinue postmenopausal women consuming tomato products from their daily menu for a month. And in fact it would increase the levels of N-telopeptide in the blood. N-telepeptide is chemicals that are released by the body in the blood when there is a broken bone.

Then four months later the respondent is given tomato juice containing 15 mg of lycopene per day, but it also added to the 35 mg capsule of lycopene. The result is N-telopeptide levels in women who drank tomato juice or lycopene capsules will decrease drastically.

For preventive measures, the experts also strongly recommend that consume two glasses of tomato juice every day. And the results of that research have been published in the journal Osteoporosis International.