Super Salads Make yourself a good salad, and you may be cutting your cancer risk. Carrots can do more than help your eyes. Now researchers in Massachusetts say carrots could help protect you from lung cancer.
Tomatoes are another cancer-fighting salad ingredient.
These foods contain substances called carotenoids, substances known to help protect against cancer. In a recent study, the researchers found that people who ate a lot of fruits and vegetables that contain these substances were less likely to develop lung cancer. Even smokers had a lower cancer risk when they ate these foods. But you can't take a pill and get the same effect. That's because there may be other chemicals in food that work with the ones doctors have identified to protect against cancer.