Hey, Fellas, Olive Oil And Nuts Tied To Prostate Cancer Survival

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

From 2013. I wonder if it's still believed to be correct info.

This seems to be the take-home message from a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine linking olive oil and nuts to improved survival from prostate cancer.

Researchers studied the fat intake of more than 4,500 men who had been diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer (this is cancer that's still confined to the prostate gland and has not spread to another place in the body).

It turns out that men who replaced 10 percent of their total daily calories from carbohydrates (such as rice, bread and sweets) with vegetable fats (such as olive oil and canola) after their cancer diagnosis had a 29 percent lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer and a 26 percent reduced risk of death during a median of eight years of follow-up.

In addition, adding a daily ounce of nuts to their diets was linked to an 18 percent lower risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/10/190360777/hey-fellas-olive-oil-and-nuts-tied-to-prostate-cancer-survival

[Journeyman]

1. Thanks for posting. A family member has just gone through chemo and is in remission . . .

it was good to be able to share something potentially positive with him -- especially when it doesn't take all that much change to potentially effect such a substantially positive outcome.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

3. Glad to hear he's in remission!

It's so hard to know which advice is good advice. I mean, I also found this: https://www.cancerwisdom.net/vegetable-oils-and-cancer-risk/

[C Moon]

2. I love olive oil, and a fist full of cashews sounds good to me at any hour!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Same!

BTW, have I already asked you this--regarding your screen name --are you a Macca fan?

[C Moon]

9. Yes!

[mucifer]

4. A vegan diet is a what I have read is most helpful. Links:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/a-plant-based-diet-may-protect-against-prostate-cancer-and-ed

https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/prostate-cancer-new-study-plant-based-diet

Vegan diets don't help with all cancers. But, research has shown it does with prostate cancer.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Plant-based diets seem to have many benefits.

Hard for many older men, raised to think a meatless meal is not a real meal, to change. Even those who've already developed disease that may have been caused by their diet.

Seems like society in general is moving toward a more Plant-based diet, but slowly.

[gab13by13]

6. I already do organic olive oil and nuts.

Watch the salt on the nuts though, ahem.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Yeah, the salt is a tough one for me.

There are very few foods for which I don't think it greatly enhances the flavor.