Posted on 02/26/2023 10:42:02 AM PST by ConservativeMind
Following a healthy plant-based diet after a diagnosis of prostate cancer may help prevent the disease from progressing or recurring, a study suggests.
Men who ate a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains had a 52% lower risk of cancer progressing and a 53% lower risk of recurrence, compared with men who had the lowest amounts of plants in their diet, the researchers found.
A plant-based diet may have these benefits because fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants and anti-inflammatory components, as well as dietary fiber that improve glucose control and reduce inflammation, she explained.
Also, this diet reduces potentially harmful exposures to animal-based foods, such as hormones and heterocyclic amines created during high-temperature cooking, which have been linked to prostate cancer in particular, Liu said.
Diets high in animal protein may also increase insulin resistance, while milk and dairy may increase levels of the growth factor IGF1, which has been associated with prostate cancer risk, she noted.
For the study, Liu and her colleagues used data from a study that collected information on more than 2,000 men with prostate cancer.
Over a median of seven years, the researchers found that men who reported diets that included the highest amounts of plants had a lower risk of both progression and recurrence, compared with men who ate the lowest amounts of plants. This association did not vary by age, walking pace or the severity of cancer.
"Post-diagnostic healthful plant-based diets, including vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains, may be associated with a reduction in risk of prostate cancer progression and recurrence, adding to a list of other numerous health benefits including a reduction in diabetes, cardiovascular disease and overall mortality," Liu said.
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Give me Bacon, or Give me Death!
Switching to a plant based would ruin most days for the rest of my life.
I prefer to enjoy the few years I have left.
Meat is good for you.
What’s coming is false doctrine (”doctrines of devils”) that killing animals and cooking them and eating them is wrong.
But the definition of right and wrong is the Bible NOT political correctness, and the Bible says that meat is good for you and nothing to be refused.
I promise to only eat what our benevolent overlards (deliberate misspelling for the typo Nazis) deign I should eat.
Well, I’m anti-deep state so.....
Eating vegetables is good for you? I had no idea
No need to even worry, if you don’t have prostate cancer.
As a dr in the article states, these findings may simply go along with the fact that if someone eats a healthy diet they will tend to do other healthy things like exercise and keep stress to a minimum.
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Cows are herbivores and their meat is plant based.😎
There’s that word “Could” which means nope
I’ve never seen any evidence that vegetarians live longer than anyone else. There’s a growing number of people on the internet that swear that by going carnivore and eliminating carbs they’ve improved their health and feel much better. Personally I’m staying in between the two extremes and just go with a mixed diet unless solid evidence appears that one diet is vastly superior to another.
WHAT? No bacon? Forget it. Prostate cancer is usually slow growing. Old age kills before prostate cancer in most cases.
Without meat it will only seem longer.
I eat a mix of every food available in grocery stores. And I plan on living to age 103. Exercise 4 times every week is the only thing which can achieve my goal.
https://youtube.com/shorts/cOZbElfBdCU?
Yup exercise and keeping active is important too.
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