Diet Choices That May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics recently published a review by 2 researchers who suggest that certain diet choices may help to prevent prostate cancer or manage patients who already have prostate cancer.
Here’s what they found:
To reduce prostate cancer risk or to help in the treatment of an existing case of prostate cancer, your diet should be high in vegetables and fruit and low in fat and red meat. You should also avoid excessive calcium and dairy product intake.
The researchers believe that eating fats, dairy products, and highly processed or charcoaled meats may increase your risk for prostate cancer.
On the other hand, you may want to eat cauliflower, tomatoes, broccoli, green tea, and vitamins (especially selenium and vitamin E) to reduce your prostate cancer risk.
Of course, these study results aren’t conclusive. So you should always check with your doctor before changing your diet to reduce your risk of prostate cancer or to help manage an existing case of prostate cancer.
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