Tomatoes equal to health

A study by a group of British researchers found that a substance of tomatoes, lycopene, prevents respiratory disease. The consumption of vegetables reduces the risk of developing asthma and lung inflammation. This study demonstrates that dietary supplements containing lycopene and tomato consumption helps people with asthma to control disease and prevent this disease, "said Dr. Paul Foster. Experts say that lycopene increased effects if consumed with foods high in fat, like avocado or olive oil.

Studies on the thousands of consumers of tomatoes revealed the benefits of this plant on the human body, the results are amazing, for tomato, the content, managed to prevent or cure diseases whose cure has long remained only hope at .

Among the vitamins in tomatoes, the most important are vitamin A (important for eye and endocrine processes), B complex (B1, B2, B5, B6 - protecting the nervous system, skeletal system, metabolism), vitamin C (necessary cardiovascular, nervous and endocrine system), vitamin E (vitamin youth and fertility) and vitamin K (important for the synthesis of certain elements of figurative blood). Then, tomatoes contain large amounts of potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium, magnesium and selenium, and organic acids, the latter having an important role for the digestive system. Also, the tomato is the richest natural source of lycopene, a substrate that gives red. Unfortunately lycopene can not be produced by the body, so is the only source of nutrition.

Tomatoes also contain folic acid, important in hematopoiesis ("making" red blood cells and thus help combat anemia) and eliminate homocysteine​​, an amino acid whose metabolism is dependent on vitamin B complex increased level of homocysteine ​​increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially the risk of myocardial infarction, cerebral vascuare accidents and limb vascular disease. Homocysteine ​​is also involved in the development of atherosclerosis, the disease represented by the accumulation of fat (cholesterol) in the vessel wall, which lose their elasicitatea and reduces the lumen (inside), so that the tissues which they irrigate not get enough nutrients and oxygen. Ischemia occurs (underlying infarction: myocardial, brain, lung or other tissues) and tissue degradation.