A new study listed six healthy habits that can help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. These habits are eating more tomatoes, quitting smoking, eating less processed meat, exercising, eating fish, and maintaining a BMI of less than 30.
Stacey Kenfield, lead author of the study from the University of California, and her colleagues analyzed records of least 46,000 men for 25 years and discovered that those who changed their lifestyles and followed five or six of the habits showed 39 percent lower risk of dying from prostate cancer compared to those who followed only one or none of the habits.
The analysis of data of 4,577 men concluded that those who consume vegetable fats were less likely to develop fatal tumors or die from other causes than those with diets high in animal carbohydrates and fats.
Each of the six habits has been connected with lessening the risk for prostate cancer in earlier studies but the joint effect hasn’t been studied before. The researchers also want to know which among the elements play the most important role in reducing cancer risk.
“Encouraging men and counseling men to adopt these six factors will likely improve their overall health and hopefully also improve their prostate-cancer risk. “Our data suggest that adopting these practices may prevent a large proportion of lethal prostate cancer,” said Kenfield during a presentation at the European Cancer Congress held in Amsterdam Sunday.
According to the American Cancer Society, one out of six men diagnosed with prostate cancer die because of the disease. There are 2.5 million living men in the United States with prostate cancer.
Researchers recommend men with early-stage prostate cancer to adapt a diet rich in heart-healthy nuts, vegetable oils, seeds and avocados in order to increase survival rate.
