Ways to Eat More Tomatoes to Combat Prostate Cancer
Here are 10 easy ways to get more tomato in your diet:
- Add tomatoes to sandwiches, wraps, and omelets or scrambled eggs
- Mix sun-dried tomatoes into salads, or add them to sandwiches
- Puree tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and scallions together in a food processor to make gazpacho soup
- Drink low-sodium tomato juice instead of fruit juice in the morning
- Make a marinara sauce with diced, low-sodium canned tomatoes
- Add ketchup or tomato salsa to your burger
- Add canned tomatoes or salsa to a bean burrito
- Used canned, diced, or stewed tomatoes in soups.
- Add diced tomatoes to rice and beans and succotash
- Drizzle scrambled eggs or roasted potatoes with ketchup
If you are a black man over the age of 65 and have a family history of prostate cancer, you have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer. Symptoms of prostate cancer include difficulty starting urination, weak or interrupted flow of urine, frequent urination—especially at night, difficulty emptying the bladder completely, pain or burning during urination, blood in the urine or semen, pain in the back, hips, or pelvis that doesn’t go away and painful ejaculation.
Not everyone with prostate cancer has the same symptoms, and some men have no symptoms at all.
All symptoms and conditions may not be related to prostate cancer. However, if you have any of the above symptoms that worry you, be sure to see your doctor right away. The goal is to detect prostate cancer earlier. Then, it is easier to manage.
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