Excessive weight or obesity has been linked to prostate cancer risk.
What can we do to prevent prostate cancer?
From the web:
Much research has been done on how foods could affect risk of prostate cancer.
From foodconsumer.org
- Eating plant-based diets may help patients with prostate cancer.
- Drinking black tea may help stop progression of prostate cancer
- Taking lycopene supplements alone or along with soy isoflavones may prohibit growth prostate cancer
- Drinking lots of green tea a day was linked with reduced risk of advanced
prostate cancer, but not localized prostate cancer
- Taking supplements of soy isoflavones may help men at high risk of prostate
cancer
- Eating just one serving or more of broccoli and cauliflower a week may
reduce risk of prostate cancer by up to 45 percent.
- Men consuming high levels of soy products rich in isoflavones might be able
to drastically reduce risk of prostate cancer.
- High dietary intake of selenium may reduce risk of prostate cancer
- Eating tomatoes and broccoli together can maximize their protective effect
against prostate cancer. (My mother in-law insist that my husband should and should eat lots of tomatoes- which I try to do)
- Eating just one portion of salmon per week may decrease the risk of
prostate cancer - I love white fish than salmon anyway!
- Drinking pomegranate juice may help slow the growth of prostate cancer- (I hate pomegranate God help)
- Eating oily fish or taking omega-3 fatty acids supplements may help prevent
the spread of aggressive prostate cancer to other parts of the body while high
intake of omega-6 fatty acids may do the opposite
- A hot pepper compound known as capsaicin may help men fight prostate
cancer
- Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables could be a good defense against
prostate cancer
- Consumption of lycopene and other carotenoids may help prevent prostate cancer.
- A recent study suggested that eating lycopene and vitamin E rich diet may
protect against prostate cancer.
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