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Tomato Pill 'Beats Heart Disease'

Posted June 02, 2009 8:05 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes. The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet - lycopene - that blocks "bad" LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.

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Re: Tomato Pill 'Beats Heart Disease'

06/03/2009 11:30 AM

With all the evidence of "effective" health promoting ingredients from fresh fruits and vegetables, just do your best to get the good food and forget about the distillation or extraction of those ingredients by drug companies. There may be a few drugs that are good (a qualified 'yes' for aspirin, for instance) but for the most part man-made pharmaceuticals usually have a long list of side-effects, some lethal.

And by the way, if I never saw another drug ad. on TV I wouldn't miss them in the least. The drug companies ought to be sued for "practicing medicine without a license" by airing these ads because some of them say you can get free samples by just calling. Really responsible, right?

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Re: Tomato Pill 'Beats Heart Disease'

06/03/2009 11:33 AM

I would add that eating too much refined, highly processed foods are, to a great degree, what leads to the conditions that drugs are usually prescribed for. Hm-m-m-m? I wonder if there isn't some synergistic collusion here? Feed the masses rubbish, keep them in ill health and sell them drugs. Ah, the good life!

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Re: Tomato Pill 'Beats Heart Disease'

06/04/2009 12:44 PM

My food is my medicine. Who needs drugs , whose side effects can be worse than the affliction it's trying to subside ?

Eating and exercising properly works for me.

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