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Prevent prostate cancer naturally
The US National Academy of Sciences estimated that 40% of men's cancers are affected by nutrition, suggesting that improvements in diet and dietary supplements can help to prevent and, possibly, treat the diseases.

The What Doctors Don't Tell You panel offered the following advice:
  • Adopt a low fat, high fibre, high complex carbohydrate diet

  • Avoid alcohol

  • Eat soy products, a rich source of isoflavinoids - naturally occurring antioxidants like vitamins C and E- which inhibit the growth of prostate cancer (Ed.- There is division in the nutrition world about the real benefits of soy products. See Soy side-effects)

  • Increase fibre intake. Fibre, especially water-soluble fibre like cellulose, binds to oestrogen and testosterone, thus reducing the levels in the body

  • Avoid exposure to oestrogens. One review suggested that exposure at birth to oestrogenic chemicals in foods such as cow's milk may be linked to the doubling of testicular cancer and the decline in sperm counts in Western countries. [1]

  • Eat zinc-rich foods and consider a zinc supplement. Zinc protects against cadmium build up in the body. Men with the worst forms of prostate cancer have the highest cadmium levels and the lowest zinc levels. Treatment with zinc can reduce the size of an enlarged prostate

  • Make sure you have sufficient essential fatty acids (EFAs), especially the omega-6 variety found in Evening Primrose Oil

[1] Journal of Endocrinology 1993;136:357-60

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