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On the Father's Day, text message this to your dad

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Sunday is Father's Day. It may be too late to send your dad a gift, but it is never too late to send a message to him to remind him that a healthy lifiestyle including a healthy diet can help protect against prostate cancer.

Dairy products

Raimondi S and colleagues from European Institute of Oncology in Italy reported in the March 15 2010 issue of Prostate that men with increased intake of dairy products were twice as likely to develop prostate cancer.

Vitamin C

Pollard H.B. and colleagues from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland reported in the May-June 2010 issue of In Vivo that intraperitoneal pharmacological doses of vitamin C reduced the tumor size and number in rats that received hormone-refractory prostate cancer PA III cells.

Dietary Fat

Page E Liu from University of Nottingham Medical School in the United Kingdom reported in the Jan 2010 issue of the British Journal of Nutrition that men who had highest intake of fat were at significantly greater risk for prostate cancer.

Alcohol

Lionel L. Bañez, MD, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. and colleagues presented a study at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium saying that men who had three alcoholic drinks regularly each week were 2.46 times as likely as they who did not drink alcohol to develop prostate cancer.

Exercise

Dr. Stephen J. Freedland and a team of his colleagues of the Duke University Prostate Center and the VA Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina reported in the November 2009 issue of Journal of Urology that prostate cancer was less likely to be diagnosed in men who got exercise regularly than those who led a sedentary lifestyle.

Obesity

López Fontana CM at Universidad Juan Agustín Maza and colleagues published a study in the Jul-Aug 2009 issue of Actas Urologicas Españolas saying that being obese and eating too much of dietary fats may raise the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids

F. A. Ukoli and colleagues from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee found men with high serum levels of omega-6 fat were at an elevated risk of prostate cancer while men with high serum levels of omega-3 fatty acids were at a lower risk. They published the findings in the fall 2009 issue of Ethnicity & Disease.

Sunshine

Gilbert R from the University of Bristol in Bristol, United Kingdom and colleagues reported in the Sept 15, 2009 issue of the International Journal of Cancer that exposure to sunlight may help reduce risk of prostate cancer, a disease that strikes nearly 200,000 men in the United States.

Flaxseed

Duke University Medical Center researchers discovered that a diet supplemented with grounded flaxseed significantly slowed growth of cancerous cells in prostate tumors.

Green Tea

Jim Cardelli of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport reported in the journal Cancer Prevention Research that prostate cancer patients who took four capsules of green tea extract had reduced levels of three proteins that promote tumor growth.

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by David Liu (The article contains content from previous reports published on foodconsumer.org)

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