Carrots are good not only for eyesight.
Researchers at the school of public health Harvard concluded that regular consumption of foods that contain large amount of carotene, helps to prevent the formation in the tissues of the breast benign tumors that result allows us to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer.
To obtain such results, the experts conducted the study. In 1996-1998, the scientists monitored the diet and health of girls. Later, to confirm the results of the study in 2005, 2007 and 2010, the scientists repeated their study. The results showed that from the total number of participants, namely 6600 girls, 122 of the breast was found a benign tumor.
Experts have compared the products ate healthy girls and girls, diagnosed with a tumor. It turned out that the formation of tumors was exposed to the participants, which was not enough food or no foods that contain carotenoids. Carotenoids are pigments that are part of the fruit and vegetables orange.
According to one of the researchers Caroline Bock: “the Risk of benign breast disease in those who consumed the highest level products with beta-carotene, were lower by half than those who consumed the least amount of these vegetables and fruit”.
Carotenoids, once in the body, serve an important function. They are not only antioxidants, but also to carry out the absorption of free radicals, which in turn usually become the root cause of tumors in the body.
