Tomatoes and Broccoli together can cure cancer more effectively

Forget all those bitter drugs, ingredients to cure cancer can be found in your very own vegetable garden if researchers are to be believed.

According to BBC, the research led by scientists at the Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois, indicates that eating tomatoes and broccoli together may offer better protection against cancer than eating either vegetable alone. Both vegetables are known to contain cancer-fighting chemicals but they interact together to maximise the effect.

According to Dr John Erdman, the lead researcher, "We decided to look at these foods in combination because we believed it was a way to learn more about real diets eaten by real people.

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