Comments on: Purple tomatoes designed to be new superfood http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/2008/10/purple-tomatoes-designed-to-be-new-superfood.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: MotleyHealth http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/2008/10/purple-tomatoes-designed-to-be-new-superfood.html#comment-3843 MotleyHealth Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:32:48 +0000 http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/?p=1191#comment-3843 Added a reference for the research. I agree with your point. I cannot help thinking that this work is really mostly academic. If hybrid tomatoes were sold (they may not even pass EU strict laws) then they will only benefit people that eat healthily. Time and money would probably be better spent finding ways to make wheat and potatoes healthier instead, as these are the staple foods of people with unhealthy eating habits, and they need most help. Added a reference for the research. I agree with your point. I cannot help thinking that this work is really mostly academic. If hybrid tomatoes were sold (they may not even pass EU strict laws) then they will only benefit people that eat healthily. Time and money would probably be better spent finding ways to make wheat and potatoes healthier instead, as these are the staple foods of people with unhealthy eating habits, and they need most help.

]]> By: Frontier Psychiatrist http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/2008/10/purple-tomatoes-designed-to-be-new-superfood.html#comment-3842 Frontier Psychiatrist Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:55:31 +0000 http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/?p=1191#comment-3842 Hi, It would be useful if you had a link for this research. I'm glad that you included the guarded comments from the scientific community with this post. You can't extrapolate from lab results on mice into effects on humans, and the only way of showing the effectiveness of this intervention would be a RCT. The only really well established nutritional finding is that people should eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg. There isn't much money in this and it gets lost in talk of various miracle constituents, which, bearing in mind that people still aren't living much beyond four score and ten, are hot air. Hi,

It would be useful if you had a link for this research.

I’m glad that you included the guarded comments from the scientific community with this post. You can’t extrapolate from lab results on mice into effects on humans, and the only way of showing the effectiveness of this intervention would be a RCT.

The only really well established nutritional finding is that people should eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg. There isn’t much money in this and it gets lost in talk of various miracle constituents, which, bearing in mind that people still aren’t living much beyond four score and ten, are hot air.

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