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5+ ways colorful foods fight disease [slideshow]
4. Prevent Cancer
Carotenoids are some of the more potent lipid-based antioxidants in your diet. Since antioxidants block the oxidative stress caused by free radicals, these carotenoids could help you live cancer-free.
In fact, one study showed that individual carotenoids of various types were linked to a reduction in breast cancer risk of nearly 20%. And, an analysis of eight other studies found a similarly sized effect for women with high levels of circulating carotenoids.
And, since carotenoids within in your blood tend to associate with specific tissues in the body, such as how lycopene is concentrated in the prostate and lutein in the neocortex of your brain, they could stop disease development in those tissues.
Read: Science “discovers” the best cancer-fighting foods and plants
