I just passed 6 months since my prostatectomy, but I disagree with this study. There are a LOT of factors that put your body in a susceptible condition to allow cancer to form. Just focusing on diet alone is stupid, when other factors can eclipse any benefit derived from a good diet.
That doesn’t sound very scientific to me. One group of men is counseled over the phone to eat more fruits and vegetables, and another group is counseled to eat fewer and less fruits and vegetables. Of the ones that didn’t die of a heart attack from not eating enough fruits and vegetables, there was no difference in the rate of prostate cancer between the 2 groups.
Dairy and animal (not fish) fat, along with testosterone encourage early to mid prostate cancer.
Japanese men do not get much prostate cancer in Japan, but when they move to Hawaii, their rates match ours when exposed to dairy and red meat.
Chances of getting Prostate cancer increases with more consumption of saturated fat, such as is present in such foods as prime rib.
Eating fruits and vegetables helps to speed up movement through bowel but it has little effect on exiting cancer tumors in prostate.
The only good news is, MOST prostate cancers grow slowly and the patient is more likely die from other causes or old age. I remember reading somewhere chances of you having prostate cancer is same percentage as your age. For those living in Rio Linda, it means if you are age 70, there is 70% chance you have cancer cells in prostate.
We don’t know, but if they had an otherwise rotten diet, I’m not surprised a few more vegetables didn’t help.
Jeez, just enjoy your life
these men should have been offered therapeutic
treatment FIRST, and then the role of nutrition
could have been examined (assuming it was a real study)
based upon the size and treatment of the lesions.
“Eating Fruit, Vegetables Won’t Slow Prostate Cancer, Study Finds”
As Don Imus recently found out...the hard way.
We needed this unscientific exercise to tell us that?
I am more and more convinced as I age that common sense far ellipses the pop "science" of our current "research".
The thing that slows or arrests the progression of prostate cancer is orhiectomy (removal of the testicles). Prostate cancer feeds on testosterone and the testicles are the main producer. Not many guys want to consider that but IT WORKS!
Can i still eat fruit and veggies...> /s
I would probably say drinking a lot of water and not overeating is probably advantageous. A little red wine once in awhile shouldn’t hurt.
I think genes are a HUGH part of it.
It should be Impossible that I don’t have diabetes.
We’re talking scoffing down horrific amounts of VERY sugary foods at night before bed for Decades.
Not the healthy sugary foods like fruit either.
Like a box of 36 oreos. YES it’s disgusting and yes at 51 I don’t do that anymore...maybe once a month.
But I did it a Lot in my 30s and 40s and i don’t know how my pancreas didn’t lose its mind. I think it’s the pancreas that’s in charge of that :)
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.
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.)