Cooked Tomatoes

I haven't listened to the program, but his programs are usually very good.

There is some thought that lycopene might protect against prostate cancer. It's the red colour in tomatoes and red peppers.

Lycopene is insoluble, so if you eat a fresh raw tomato, it simply passes through you as fibre without any extra benefits. In order to absorb lycopene, it needs to be consumed dissolved in oil. So the tomato (with skin, as that's where the lycopene is concentrated) needs to be cooked in oil, and the oil consumed. Some of the best sources are tomato ketchup, tomato soups, or even a teaspoon of tomato puree concentrate if it contains oil.

How beneficial it is if you already have prostate cancer is even less clear than the extent it might help to prevent getting it. It may well be you already missed the boat on that one.

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I can't think of anything I changed in my diet as a result of prostate cancer (ignoring temporary changes like going fibre-free during radiotherapy, and higher percentage of protein during hormone therapy).

I've never drunk alcohol, but that's just because I never found one I particularly liked.

I stopped eating beef during BSE and never really took it up again, but I never was a great fan of it. I'll allow myself a few good quality hamburgers at summer BBQs, and perhaps a really good steak and kidney pie in a restaurant probably less than once a year.

I stopped eating red meats and processed/preserved meats 2-3 decades ago, recognising they're a very significant cause of bowel cancer.

I'll eat any of these things if they're what's provided when at a friends, but they're things I don't buy for myself.

I still have plenty of dairy. I mostly don't achieve my 5 a day, and I still do Pomi-T on the basis it might compensate and might help prevent recurrence. Many days I have no meat, and what meat I have is mainly chicken and fish.