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BBC NEWS => Eating pizza ‘cuts cancer risk’

I hate eating tomatoes.

For years people have nagged me, “oh, you need to eat more tomatoes, they reduce the risk of cancer.”

To which I always respond, “I eat pizza, that’s a tomato food.”

“Oh no”, they say, “That’s not the same.”

Turns out, it is.

Pizzas are covered with a potentially protective tomato sauce. Italian researchers say eating pizza could protect against cancer. Researchers claim eating pizza regularly reduced the risk of developing oesophageal cancer by 59%. The risk of developing colon cancer also fell by 26% and mouth cancer by 34%, they claimed.

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