Foods To Prevent Prostate Cancer
Published on Apr 13 2010, in the categories: prevention
Prevention is probably the keyword for a healthy and balanced life.
No wonder doctors give advices about what should we do to maintain that healthy life and what to avoid; diseases are better to be prevented than treated.
It is the exact case of the prostate cancer: because of its frequency it is considered as a common disease affecting a great part of the male population so treatments are available for it but an even easier way is to make sure you do all that is left in your power to prevent it.
Medical research studies concluded that there are two methods of treating the prostate cancer and that would be by using the conventional treatment or the alternative treatment.
Conventional treatment is used only after the cancer is diagnosed and since there are no early symptoms to make it detectable at an early stage, the screening tests and the prostate biopsy are recommended.
In this article the alternative treatment is our main interest. This type of treatment includes the herbal therapy treatment or the natural treatment method based on plants, vitamins, antioxidants and minerals.
Doctors did agree that the best way to prevent the prostate cancer and not only, is by creating yourself a balanced and nutritional diet, consisting only in natural products like fruits and vegetables, but also rich in antioxidants and mineral supplements such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, lycopene, calcium, resveratrol or phyto-oestrogens with its two groups: isoflavonoids and lignans, found in berries, nuts and cereals, vitamin C in high doses, also vitamin A and E, amino and essential fatty acids, enzymes.
Below is a short list of foods used for the prevention of the prostate cancer.
The African plum tree also know as Pygeum lowers the cholesterol, the pomegranate juice from the Punica granatum tree has anti-inflamatory properties, zyflamend extract from the olive oil, hot peppers and jalapenom habenero reduces the growth of prostate cancer cells, the saw palmetto and the soy are considered miracle herbs, soy products such as tofu or miso have isoflavonoids.
In pumpkin seeds, oysters, barley, chicken meat and sunflower seeds large quantities of zinc are stored.
The brown rice, liver and seafood in general are rich in selenium, as for meat, cold-water fish has a high amount of Omega 3.
In apricots, papayas, pink grapefruits, watermelons, red carrots, guava and of course tomatoes, cooked tomatoes we can find lycopene, with its antioxidant activity that has the benefic result of reversing or stopping the tumor from spreading.
About drinking products, water is the best, and the more you drink it the better it is. The daily recommended quantity would be fifty percent of body weight in ounces or at least eight glasses of water. Eucalyptus, green tea and lemon juice are alternatives for simple water.
Maitake mushroom extracts show some beneficial effects, but honey is also recommended especially fructose, found in all natural fruits.
Avoid pastries foods, sweet products made with processed sugar and artificial sweeteners, butter, large quantities of salt or meat processed foods.
As I’ve stated before, this is just a small list of foods used in diets for preventing the prostate cancer and the best way to know the complete list is to seek for the advice of a medical expert or an herbalist.
No wonder doctors give advices about what should we do to maintain that healthy life and what to avoid; diseases are better to be prevented than treated.
It is the exact case of the prostate cancer: because of its frequency it is considered as a common disease affecting a great part of the male population so treatments are available for it but an even easier way is to make sure you do all that is left in your power to prevent it.
Medical research studies concluded that there are two methods of treating the prostate cancer and that would be by using the conventional treatment or the alternative treatment.
Conventional treatment is used only after the cancer is diagnosed and since there are no early symptoms to make it detectable at an early stage, the screening tests and the prostate biopsy are recommended.
In this article the alternative treatment is our main interest. This type of treatment includes the herbal therapy treatment or the natural treatment method based on plants, vitamins, antioxidants and minerals.
Doctors did agree that the best way to prevent the prostate cancer and not only, is by creating yourself a balanced and nutritional diet, consisting only in natural products like fruits and vegetables, but also rich in antioxidants and mineral supplements such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, lycopene, calcium, resveratrol or phyto-oestrogens with its two groups: isoflavonoids and lignans, found in berries, nuts and cereals, vitamin C in high doses, also vitamin A and E, amino and essential fatty acids, enzymes.
Below is a short list of foods used for the prevention of the prostate cancer.
The African plum tree also know as Pygeum lowers the cholesterol, the pomegranate juice from the Punica granatum tree has anti-inflamatory properties, zyflamend extract from the olive oil, hot peppers and jalapenom habenero reduces the growth of prostate cancer cells, the saw palmetto and the soy are considered miracle herbs, soy products such as tofu or miso have isoflavonoids.
In pumpkin seeds, oysters, barley, chicken meat and sunflower seeds large quantities of zinc are stored.
The brown rice, liver and seafood in general are rich in selenium, as for meat, cold-water fish has a high amount of Omega 3.
In apricots, papayas, pink grapefruits, watermelons, red carrots, guava and of course tomatoes, cooked tomatoes we can find lycopene, with its antioxidant activity that has the benefic result of reversing or stopping the tumor from spreading.
About drinking products, water is the best, and the more you drink it the better it is. The daily recommended quantity would be fifty percent of body weight in ounces or at least eight glasses of water. Eucalyptus, green tea and lemon juice are alternatives for simple water.
Maitake mushroom extracts show some beneficial effects, but honey is also recommended especially fructose, found in all natural fruits.
Avoid pastries foods, sweet products made with processed sugar and artificial sweeteners, butter, large quantities of salt or meat processed foods.
As I’ve stated before, this is just a small list of foods used in diets for preventing the prostate cancer and the best way to know the complete list is to seek for the advice of a medical expert or an herbalist.
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