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Red vegetables are a great ally against prostate cancer
Pulse Hradlines ^ | Apr. 24, 2016 | Camilo Pacheco

Posted on 04/24/2016 8:11:42 PM PDT by Innovative

A diet full of red vegetables, like tomatoes, apricots, guavas and watermelons may prevent men from developing prostate cancer, according to Barbara Quinn, a nutritionist affiliated with the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. The secret of red vegetables would lie on a substance called lycopene.

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To: Innovative

Except when they’re not.


61 posted on 04/25/2016 4:15:46 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: umgud
I’M 64 and have eaten this stuff all my life.

Oh, you're supposed to EAT it ?

I looked up the location of the prostate and just assumed....

62 posted on 04/25/2016 4:27:07 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Innovative

Beets feed your gag reflex.


63 posted on 04/25/2016 7:07:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: boycott; 867V309
tomato is a fruit.

Exactly. The first sentence distracted me from reading the rest of the article. If the nutritionist didn’t know that, I am not sure I can trust the rest of what they have to say.

A "botanical" fruit is not necessarily a "culinary" one, and a "culinary" fruit is not necessarily a "botanical" one. The Tomato Distinction is never even consistently made by its followers--only rarely do people mention cucumbers and peppers, even more rarely do people mention different uses of the word "fruit," and no one ever seriously says things for any other category, like "lettuce is leaves, not a vegetable" or "a beet is a root, not a vegetable."

So it is that wben I find the insistence that "the tomato is actually a fruit," I find myself distracted in similar fashion.

64 posted on 04/27/2016 6:41:49 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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and no one ever seriously says things for any other category

"and no one ever seriously says things like that for any other category"

65 posted on 04/27/2016 6:43:16 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Lonely Bull

Okay, maybe it wasn’t the best way for them to start the article. It distracted from the point.


66 posted on 04/27/2016 7:51:49 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: boycott
Okay, maybe it wasn’t the best way for them to start the article. It distracted from the point.

Now that I have some more time, I looked to see if this Barbara Quinn had anything else to say. Here's something from montereyherald.com that has "fruits and vegetables" with the same list of produce:

Barbara Quinn: At risk of prostate cancer? Think red

Part of that benefit might be from lycopene, a reddish pigment that gives color to fruit and vegetables like tomatoes, apricots, guavas and watermelons.

I don't intend to ask anyone on the other site why the original article in this thread mentions only "red vegetables." (It may simply be an editing error, but if it is, someone should've seen it before publishing.)

My little distraction was different: I find it unremarkable that a tomato may be a "red vegetable," but I find it odd that an apricot, guava, or watermelon may be. (They are "vegetable" in the "animal, vegetable, mineral" sense, but most people don't usually talk about lumber or daffodils as "vegetable.") The wording in the montereyherald.com version also sounds more accurate to me in another way: most apricots aren't what I'd call red, but many have some red to them.

In other words, I definitely agree that some things can be distracting, heh. We're discussing something from the original article of this thread, but it's not (I hope) what the writer had in mind--I hope that writers and editors don't resort to odd word choices to provoke "discussion."

67 posted on 04/27/2016 10:47:02 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Lonely Bull

I don’t intend to ask anyone on the other site why the original article in this thread mentions only “red vegetables.”


My guess is that a lot of vegetables are a great ally against prostate cancer. And a lot of vegetables would likely be a great ally against several types of cancer.

Additionally, so many men have prostate surgery that shouldn’t be having it. Often times, the cancer is so slow growth (or no growth) that it would never impact the life of the patient. I’ve read that 30% or more of the surgeries are unnecessary or ill advised.


68 posted on 04/27/2016 11:14:18 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: boycott
My guess is that a lot of vegetables are a great ally against prostate cancer. And a lot of vegetables would likely be a great ally against several types of cancer.

Oh, I meant that the article talks about "red vegetables" without a mention of "red fruits" in the same sentence.

69 posted on 04/27/2016 3:26:52 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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