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July 25, 2008, 11:31 pm
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I came across an article about how consuming a tablespoon of tomato paste a day was effective at blocking the sun's rays from burning skin. It seemed it was the lycopene in the paste that did it. Read more here:

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/131/5/1449

Well I have heard everything now LOL

Wow, that's really cool. Never knew about it. But should we not use our SPF lotions anymore?

It's not really a protection against the sun, but a protection against erythema, which is redness caused by a few things, including the sun and radiation therapy for cancer.

I think that the idea of tomato past helping fight the side effects of radiation therapy is wonderful. Since some people get terribly bothered by having radiation, then I think that taking some tomato paste to help fight it is a wonderful idea.

I didn't know eating it was supposed to help. I did know that if you slather anything on think enough it would help protect from the suns rays lol. Just one word of caution though. A thick layer of tomato paste will dry out and make you very crusty.

lol I know plenty of crusty people sans tomato paste.

On a serious note it is interesting that so many different uses for the same old things are being found now. It makes one wonder if we are reaching a point of technology leveling off.

I actually saw this experiment conducted on a television show and it really did work.

Wow it is amazing what you can learn on this web site. Tomato paste can do many different things now this.