Eat more tomatoes if you're working the night shift to increase your ovarian cancer protection!

by FSP Health team, 15 March 2013

Working the night shift isn't for the faint-hearted. It takes a while to adjust your sleeping patterns and get used to being awake during the night, which plays havoc with your health. Now, research has found a scary new health risk associated with working the night shift - it puts you more at risk of developing ovarian cancer if you're over 50! Here's how to even out the risk by adding more of the fruit that thinks it's a vegetable to your diet.

Shift work – especially working the night shift – has already been linked to a higher risk of heart attacks.

Now, women have reason to be more cautious about working hours outside the usual 9 to 5, as US researchers have found a link between working night shifts and the risk of ovarian cancer, says BBC Health News.

In fact, a study of more than 3,000 women suggested that working overnight increased the risk of early-stage cancer by a drastic 49% compared with doing normal office hours.

That’s because the sleep hormone melatonin is disrupted if you’re active at night.

This in turn has a knock-on effect on oestrogen regulation in the body, which increases your risk of ovarian cancer.

Have a blood test today to check if you’re at risk of ovarian cancer!

If you’ve been working the night shift and you’re worried that you’re more at risk of developing ovarian cancer, you can have it checked with a simple blood test.

If the blood test shows you have high blood calcium levels, you could be at risk of ovarian cancer, says FSP Health.

This is a great way to catch ovarian cancer in its tracks and start treatment before it gets too advanced.

Luckily, you can also make a simple change to your diet that’ll lower your risk of developing ovarian cancer.

The easiest way to protect yourself from ovarian cancer – eat lots more tomatoes!

Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which is the pigment that gives tomatoes their juicy red colour.

And one of the easiest ways to protect your body from ovarian cancer is to take in more lycopene, says FSP Health.

“Lycopene results in decreased tumour size and makes cancer less aggressive,” confirms Dr Kucuk from the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Michigan.

But there’s only about 5mg of lycopene per 100g of ripe tomato. So you’d have to eat about 10 organic tomatoes a day to get the necessary protection.

So start adding more tomatoes to your daily diet – have some grilled with breakfast, chopped into a salad at lunch or mixed into stirfry for supper.

That’s all it takes.

Tags: tomatoes, ovarian cancer, night shift, lycopene, cancer

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