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Rule #2

The next recommendation from the World Cancer Research Fund is to avoid soft drink.

The Facts

A small can of Coke, Pepsi or pop can has the equivalent of 9 tsp of sugar. We have about 6L of blood in our body. In all that blood we need only about a teaspoon of sugar in healthy people. So make the maths, you get in 5 minutes, 9 times the amount your blood stream can take. And the worst part is your more thirsty after that than before you drank the soft drink because it actually steals the water from you. Furthermore, all this sugar sends a message to your brain and brain tells you to turn it into fat. So diet soft drinks even if they do not have actual sugar send the same message and your body will turn sugar into fat with other food sources never the less.

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I will comment on each of the 9 recommendations given by World Cancer Fund foundation which up came with this conclusion by the world experts on the manner.

Rule #1: 30 minutes of exercise everyday

It’s doesn’t look much, but research start to pick up on the subject. A cancer research made at University of Kentucky published in the Prostate journal done on an animal model which is prone to develop prostate cancer after some time, showed that 3 miles run every day for human, decrease the apparition of the disease. Furthermore, Cancer institutes like the Dana-Fraber are also interested in the beneficial effect of physical exercises. more…

From the data of 20 studies, men who ate a diet rich in tomato had a 20 % reduced risk of prostate cancer. Somehow, the process of heating and cooking this fruit, yes by definition tomato is a fruit and not vegetable, increase the effectiveness of its phytochemicals. Raw tomatoes are only half effective than the cooked ones.

How it works?

Cancer research has shown that tomatoes reduced inflammation which is one of the 4 basic processes that prostate cancer use to take control of you. Sure tomatoes alone can’t be a cure, but by addition of other functional foods you increase your chance by the mouthful.

Can a supplement of lycopene work?

Nope. A phase II study on advanced prostate cancer concluded no benefit. The results were published in the Journal of Urology by a team from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. I am not surprised from the results since lycopene is just one of the phytochemicals of the tomato. A lot of supplements fail to provide the same benefit of the functional food from which it has been extracted. Anyway, supplements are good only if you miss a nutrient. And the only nutrient we miss is vitamin D, but that’s another story.

Bottom line

Eat tomato, cook them and use a little extra virgin olive oil. You can go hardcore and take 2 spoonfuls of tomato paste everyday like a medicine but I prefer to make a salsa with them.

Reference

Lycopene for advanced hormone refractory prostate cancer: a prospective, open phase II pilot study.Schwenke C, Ubrig B, Thürmann P, Eggersmann C, Roth S. J Urol. 2009 Mar;181(3):1098-103.

Some doctors are starting to get back to the basics of medicine. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote two thousand and five hundred years ago to “Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food”.  Surely, it’s not about throwing away the last century of medical advance, but using a balance with the pills the modern medicine brought and the chicken soup of granny. Again it’s not a debate on ethics, but the use of common sense with all the scientific knowledge available today.

After all, food is the one medicine that we seemingly willing to swallow at least three times a day. Why not make it count, and add up the tasty dishes made with inexpensive ingredients from the local market to help upgrade our general conditions.
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Prostate Cancer is one of the most insidious cancer types. The cancer symptoms, most of the time, are only detectable in advanced cancer stage unless you make your yearly check up with a doctor. Cancer patients live in fear of cancer pain caused by the metastatic cancer. Poor dietary habits are responsible for more than one third of cancers, showing the importance of a healthy diet in order to reduce cancer causes as well as its progression.
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There is confusion about Mediterranean diet right now. Cancer researcher from the University of Melbourne reported on a link between Mediterranean-style eating and the effect on lowering the PSA level. The Mediterranean diet is abundant in functional foods that protect against prostate cancer and cancer mortality. Compared to many Western countries Greece has lower prostate cancer mortality, but every time a new study emerges on the health benefits of Mediterranean eating, many consumers scratch their heads. How could countries that gave us delicatessen, pizza, steak frites and lamb souvlaki teach us anything about healthy eating?
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One proverb says that you are what you eat. It’s especially true when it’s about cancer. You passed fifties and nobody told you that bad diet could be harmful on the long run and now you are stuck with prostate cancer or afraid that you may have prostate cancer.

All is not lost, but there is no magic pill to cure cancer. All you can do is to buy more time. More time to achieve your goal in life, more time to see your children and grandchildren. Modern medicine and cancer research in the last two decades made a lot of progress to buy you more time, but now you can also participate and functional foods and cancer prevention can help you.

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Pomegranate, a rich source of antioxidants and phytochemicals, has been linked to protection against prostate cancer. Men diagnosed with prostate cancer can benefit from drinking pomegranate juice, according to findings of a new study published in the Journal of Urology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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It has  started; the ink is not even dry from last time with the Purpose of PSA in prostate cancer. The  influential American doctors group has  rewritten the guidelines for the American Urological Association which was issued last Monday at the annual meeting in Chicago.

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