Vegetable oil and nuts 'fight prostate cancer': Swapping cakes for foods can stop disease spreading

  • Study finds lower risk of cancer spreading if processed foods are replaced
  • A heart-healthy diet could save lives, according to U.S. scientists

By Jenny Hope

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Heart-healthy: Using vegetable oil instead of animal fats could slow down the spread of prostate cancer

Heart-healthy: Using vegetable oil instead of animal fats could slow down the spread of prostate cancer

Swapping to vegetable oils and nuts may increase a man’s chances of surviving prostate cancer.

A study found that those diagnosed with the disease early had a lower risk of the cancer spreading if they replaced animal fats found in processed foods – such as cake and pastries – with healthy vegetable fats.

One serving of oil-based salad dressing a day, equivalent to one tablespoon, was linked with a 29 per cent lower risk of potentially lethal prostate cancer and a 13 per cent lower chance of dying from any cause.

The US authors stressed the research involving 4,577 prostate cancer patients had revealed an association and could not necessarily prove a diet rich in oils and nuts was the cause.

In an online paper published by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, they wrote: ‘Overall, our findings support counselling men with prostate cancer to follow a heart-healthy diet in which carbohydrate calories are replaced with unsaturated oils and nuts to reduce the risk of all-cause mortality.’

Of the men with prostate cancer enrolled into the study, around a fifth died from the disease over a period of about eight years. Another 31 per cent died from heart disease and almost 21 per cent from other cancers.

At the time they were recruited, all the men had non-metastatic prostate cancer, meaning the disease had not yet spread.

 

Information about the patients’ dietary habits was collected from questionnaires.

Swapping animal fats and carbohydrates for healthy vegetable fats, including olive and canola oil as well as oils from nuts, seeds and avocados, was found to have a significant impact on disease progression and death.

The study found oils from nuts, seeds and avocados were found to have a significant impact on disease progression and death

The study found oils from nuts, seeds and avocados were found to have a significant impact on disease progression and death

Men who replaced 10 per cent of their daily carbohydrate consumption with vegetable fats had a 29 per cent lower risk of developing deadly prostate cancer and a 26 per cent reduced risk of dying from any cause.

The study also showed that eating an ounce of nuts a day led to an 18 per cent lower risk of lethal prostate cancer and an 11 per cent lower risk of death.

Dr Erin Richman, from the University of California at San Francisco, said: ‘Consumption of healthy oils and nuts increases plasma (blood) antioxidants and reduces insulin and inflammation, which may deter prostate cancer progression.’

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This is a no-brainer, really. Rule of thumb is to watch what you eat, eat in moderation, try to consume more raw (if safe, of course) and natural products and cut down on processed and refined foods especially meats and refined sugars.

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vegetable oil is the same as palm oil - please google search 'palm oil' and see what a dangerous product this is and how is it wrecking the Amazon rain forests and killing wildlife. Do not believe these articles - educate yourselves.

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Dear Eric, I don't touch vegetable oil as it clogs up the arteries. Not to mention the awful taste.

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Vegetable oil is absorbing chemicals from the plastic bottle which mimics oestrogen. This is usually primary treatment for prostate cancer. - bob , bristol, United Kingdom, 11/6/2013 16:15 ************************************************************************************************************************************ Try buying your vegetable oil in a glass bottle, Bob. :-))

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Its all very well to say 'use vegetable oil instead of animal fats' but most of the so-called vegetable oil being used in foods is hydrogenated, which is far worse than animal fats.

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So many cancer surveys today DM, now where did I put those walnuts bought after the last lot of reports?

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Vegetable oil is absorbing chemicals from the plastic bottle which mimics oestrogen. This is usually primary treatment for prostate cancer.

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Nuts, yes. Vegetable oil? NEVER. Who writes this tripe? Straight from the mouth of the seller obviously. Friends, these rancid oils are dead food. They offer NO nutrition and are very, very harmful. God, how can this worthless info continue in the media. Does anyone check facts? Do they simple accept the ghost written articles as free goodies, work they don't have to perform themselves? Egregious lies!!!

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Headline: 'Swapping cakes for foods can stop disease spreading'....since when was cake not a food? Have you been watching too much Brass Eye?

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Information about the patients¿ dietary habits was collected from questionnaires. And we know how accurate that is! I would say that most men have no idea what goes into what they are eating, especially if it is cooked by their wives and it tastes OK. The only time you get a ,"What the hell is this?" is if there`s something wrong.

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