Tomato Juice May Cut Clotting In Diabetics

For people with type 2 diabetes, tomato juice may help stave off the heart troubles that often complicate the disease.Researchers have found that drinking tomato juice for three weeks had a blood-thinning effect in people with the disease. The juice reduced “platelet aggregation” -- the blood’s ability to clot.The finding appears in a research letter in the Aug. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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