> EAT TO KEEP PROSTRATE AWAY
>
> One of the best ways men can keep their prostates healthy - and reduce
> their risk of prostate cancer - is by eating the right foods. Movember
> (the month formerly known as November) is almost upon us, and with it
> all sorts of moustache-based tomfoolery to highlight men's health
> issues, most notably prostate cancer. Now, if you're under 40 you may
> think prostate cancer isn't something you have to worry about right
> now, and to a large degree you'd be right. But now is the time you can
> be putting in place the lifestyle choices that can help make sure you
> avoid prostate cancer in the future. One thing you can do is to learn
> about the foods that actively promote a healthy prostate and those
> that do the opposite. Here are the main ones.
>
> Garlic
> Garlic is an allium vegetable, as are onions, shallots, leeks and
> chives. It's been suggested that men who eat a lot of allium
> vegetables are less likely to develop prostate cancer. One small study
> conducted in Turkey found a reduction in PSA (a protein associated
> with prostate cancer) of more than half of a group of nine men who had
> the cancer and who took a liquid garlic extract for a month.
> A larger study in China found that men who ate more than 10g of allium
> vegetables a day were 49% less likely to develop prostate cancer than
> those who ate less than 2.2g a day.
>
> Spring onion
> Another allium vegetable with prostate cancer fighting properties is
> spring onion. In the Chinese study, men who ate more than 2.1g of
> spring onion a day reduced their prostate cancer risk by a whopping
> 70% compared to those who ate none at all. Garlic and spring onion are
> often eaten with other prostate friendly ingredients like tomatoes, so
> a combination may be more effective than individual vegetables.
> Tomato
> So what is it about the tomato that helps prevent prostate cancer
> (along with other illnesses)? It seems to be an ingredient called
> lycopene, the chemical that gives tomatoes their red colour, and the
> really great thing is that cooked and concentrated tomatoes are just
> as good in this regard - or even better - than fresh ones. So
> everything from ketchup and soup to the tomato sauce on pizzas may
> help to keep prostate cancer at bay. How do we know? Well, one study
> from 2002 looked at the eating habits of more than 47,000 men. The men
> who ate tomato sauce or other preparations of cooked tomatoes two or
> more times per week had 20% less chance of developing prostate cancer.
> A study published last year in the journal of Cancer Prevention
> Research suggested that a daily serving of tomatoes (fresh, cooked or
> in sauces) could protect against prostate cancer and slow the growth
> of tumours in existing sufferers.