Vegetable and fruit diet prevents Prostate Cancer
More and more medical studies indicate that the antioxidants in vegetables, particularly tomatoes and broccoli reduce prostate cancer risk, while foods with animal fats increase risk.
There is also growing evidence that both tomato and broccoli consumption helps considerably reduce risk of prostate cancer. In the tomato products, attention has focused on nutrients called carotenoids, particularly lycopene. Lycopene is the major red carotenoid pigment found in tomatoes. In broccoli, a number of sulfur compounds are thought to detoxify carcinogens.
Both of these are thought to benefit prostate health.
Carotenoids are very poorly absorbed from raw foods, so some heating really helps bring out the benefits. Consumption with a little healthy fat helps, too. For example take beta-carotene from carrots. Eating carrot raw leads to 1 or 2 percent beta-carotene absorption.
Steaming those carrots a little bit and add a little bit of oil in there, you’ll get much more absorption of the beneficial carotenoids.
The same is true for tomatoes. By overcooking tomatoes, for example, by simmering a tomato sauce for hours, you’ll begin to break down the lycopene.
Nutrients in foods can lower risk of prostate cancer. In observational studies and clinical trials there are suggestions that higher consumption of vitamin E and selenium lower prostate cancer risk. Vitamin E is found in basic plant foods, including nuts, vegetables, vegetable oils, as well as egg yolks.
Vitamin E is also in most breakfast cereals because it is added when manufacturers fortify it.
The metallic trace element selenium comes into plants from the soil, so it’s in grains such as wheat, barley, hops, and rice. There is also some selenium from animal foods products, because the food animals also consume this grain.
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