Food and prostate cancer prevention

Author: Valerian D

A family member has just died from prostate cancer. The doctor stated that this cancer is more common in high fat/low fiber diets and rather rare in high fiber/low fat diets like the traditional Japanese and vegetarian diets.

Many studies have concluded that a vegan diet lower the risk of developing prostate cancer. There are two groups - lycopene and cruciferous vegetables. As there is a weak relationship between prostate cancer prevention and tomatoes, the cruciferous vegetables consumption has an important influence in helping prostate cancer patients.

Related to lycopene vegetables, researchers have found that eating tomatoes only reduces the risk by 16% and eating the more concentrate tomato paste does increase that amount to 23%.

On the contrary, cruciferous vegetables definitely showed a greater correlation between the food and prostate cancer prevention. It can reduce your chances by as much as 40%. Of course, there was some differences in the different cruciferous vegetables, but they all are helpful. The basic action these vegetables is protect the DNA from breaking down.

One major problem regarding vegetables is their natural consumption, because the cooked food is not as good for the body in getting the needed nutriment. Researches related to nutrition process have revealed the existence of an enzyme that help plant's cell structure to release the nutriment. When the food is cooked, high temperature destroys this enzyme and the nutriment remains in the food, except for the little bit that our body can process it. The conclusion is that natural food is about 7 times stronger than if it is cooked.

The problem is how strict a diet does it take to get the benefit? Does one have to be a strict vegetarian?. My personal opinion is that a little of everything cannot harm our body. Avoid red meat as much as you can, especially organs, but eating a little bit from time to time wont be a tragedy. If you like meat very much, fish is preferable. Is also a fact, your body need calcium. You can have it from veggies, but 1-2 glasses of milk will provide the necessary intake.

Valerian D. is a freelance writer interested in items such as cancer prostate treatment

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