Posted on 01/14/2020 5:07:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
Eating vegetables offers a lot of health benefits -- but it doesn't slow the progression of prostate cancer.
The finding, reported in a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, follows an experimental program designed by the UC San Diego Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center in which men with prostate cancer received nutritional consultation over the telephone.
The consultation encouraged consumption of at least seven daily servings of vegetables or fruit -- defined as a half-cup of raw or cooked vegetables or fruits or 100 percent vegetable juice, including at least two servings each of cruciferous vegetables, like cabbage, and tomatoes.
A similar program was found to be effective at improving the all-around diets of breast cancer survivors.
"One of the most common questions I receive from patients is, 'Are there any changes I can make to my diet to help fight the cancer?'" study co-author J. Kellogg Parsons, a professor of urology at Moores UC San Diego Comprehensive Cancer Center, told UPI. "Diets boosted by extra vegetables provided no disease-specific benefits to patients with prostate cancer. This finding runs contrary to prevailing scientific and public opinion. Nevertheless, we also demonstrated -- for the first time -- that a simple, inexpensive, and convenient behavioral intervention can lead patients with prostate cancer to make healthier food choices."
The study, however, was not built around how the dietary choices of prostate cancer patients influenced their overall health. Rather, the idea, Parsons said, was an assessment of a structured, "behavioral intervention, grounded in the field of social psychology" that was designed to "nudge" patients with prostate cancer toward healthier food choices.
The final analysis of the Men's Eating and Living, or "MEAL," Study included 443 men between 50 and 80 years of age from 91 U.S. urology and medical oncology clinics across the country who had biopsy-confirmed prostate adenocarcinoma. In all, 226 of the study subjects received the dietary consultation, while the remaining 217 participants received only written information about diet and prostate cancer.
Over the two-year study period, 245 study participants had their cancer progress, with a relatively equal distribution in both groups -- 124, or 55 percent, in the dietary intervention group and 121, or 56 percent, in the control group. The researchers also found that there were no significant differences in time to cancer.
Based on self reporting by the study participants, however, those who received dietary consultation did increase their intake of fruits and vegetables by a mean of two servings per day. Blood tests revealed that those in the dietary intervention group also had roughly 25 percent higher levels of plasma carotenoid -- a biomarker for vegetable intake -- than those in the control group.
"Diet is not a 'magic bullet' for treating prostate cancer," Parsons said. "But it's also worth noting that while a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables may not cure cancer, it will likely keep the body stronger and healthier, which may help patients better tolerate cancer treatments."
Cancer loves sugar, loves a generally inflamed environment, and hates high levels of oxygen and vitamin C (a few grams per day).
Pulse a Keto diet, get lean, do cardio and pound some vitamin C. It won’t hurt, and probably will help.
Well ain’t it a bitch.
I suspect they ate more sugar once they moved to Hawaii. The reason PET scans detect growing cancer is the cells use of energy through glycolsis, which is known as the Warburg effect. I
Doubt red meat has anything to do with cancer in any way. We evolved eating meat not corn and wheat.
Yeap.
“I suspect they ate more sugar once they moved to Hawaii. “
I suspect you are not up to date.
Or Frank Zappa, who did a song called "Call Any Vegetable".
” and hates high levels of oxygen and vitamin C”
ROTFLMAO!
Don Imus died from a horse fall and alcoholism.
“Pulse a Keto diet”
I have mine on continuous.
Seems like prostate cancer is almost a given in aging men - had my surgery a couple years ago and then had to follow up with radiation...it feeds on testosterone.
The fall was years ago and he’d been dry for decades.
Self-reported two more servings a day?
Not exactly prime research.
My guess as to the larger correlation, however, would be those not eating sugars and simple carbs. Some nominal increase in veggie consumption not likely to be significant.
Eating fruits and vegetables can prevent prostate cancer and all types of cancer, so long as meat, poultry, pork, fish, dairy, eggs, and all animal protein is also eliminated from the diet. Only a whole food, plant-based diet can prevent and in many cases help reverse cancer.
https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/prostate-cancer/
Frequent ejaculation also helps prevent prostate cancer. (Seriously, not joking.)
Did you have to go on lupron for hormone therapy? I hear that’s a hard road.
And then you can sing in the boys’ choir. :)
For most cancers, sugar is the fuel. Prostate cancer uses hormone and fat combination, until it morphs into a sugar eater years later.
By the way, I’m a 17 year prostate cancer patient and my cancer is still a fat eater, but keeps recurring.
No - my PSA was low enough that the doc opted to just go with it and save the more vigorous options in case the plain radiation didn’t work - 1/1/2 year check had PSA at effective zero so I’m hopeful old age will be the cause instead of the cancer...I met some folks that were on oral chemo and hormone therapy while taking my radiation - near the end of the cycle they were starting to have more tiredness and other side-effects than me but none were really sick from it.
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