It is important to eat the right foods to stay healthy and prevent disease. Researchers at Harvard University say that men _____ (1) eat a lot of tomatoes, tomato sauce or pizza smothered with tomato sauce, may be _____ (2) the right thing. Eating many tomatoes may give men a hedge _____ (3) prostrate cancer.
They studied the eating habits of 47,000 males over several years. What they _____ (4) was that men who ate tomato sauce two to four times a week _____ (5) a lower risk of developing prostrate cancer. On average, this risk was 35% _____ (6) when compared with men who ate none. Some foods are thought to be powerful agents to ward _____ (7) certain diseases and it appears that the humble tomato is one of them.
However, we must _____ (8) that developing cancer or other diseases, is a complex process with _____ (9) factors playing a part. It would be foolish to assume that we could ward off diseases merely by adding or removing _____ (10) item from our diets.