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A Nutritional Prostate Cancer Remedy |
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Here we have more proof that the daily fish diet is an effective prostate cancer remedy. This large scale Swedish study involving 6.000 men for 30 years has found that the incidence of prostate cancer is 2 to 3 times lower among men who ate moderate and high amounts of fish. Previous studies have shown that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish also protect against cancer of the colon, rectum and ovary, as well as inhibiting the growth of cancer cells in laboratory experiments.
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The results of this study parallel the well known very low incidence of prostate cancer in Japan, also 3 times lower - a country whose traditional diet includes one or more servings of seafood per day. However, in Sri Lanka the incidence of prostate cancer is 138 times lower than in the Western nations, and in China, where all cancer rates are tracked, the incidence of prostate cancer is even lower - and so rare that it is not even tracked separately [see CANCER COMPARISON in these pages.
The crux of this matter is that seafood and fish are a very small part of the normal Sinhalese and Chinese daily diet. This points directly to the complete range of the 72+ natural trace elements in daily food of the Sinhalese and Chinese - in countries where the only affordable fertilizers come from the return of all life wastes to the soil. This maintains the 72+ trace elements in their soils, and hence in their daily food, in perpetuity.
And as mentioned here again and again, while the omega-3 fatty acids are crucial to our health, the equally crucial importance of the 72+ natural trace elements to our health and well being is generally still unknown to the Western biomedical sciences.
Original Article:
Fatty Fish Cut Cancer Risk
Eating fatty fish such as salmon, herring, and mackerel could reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. Essential fatty acids - especially omega-3 fatty acids contained in large amounts in fatty fish - have previously been proved to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells. A team from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, carried out a 30-year study on over 6,000 Swedish men. "Our results may indicate an important means by which this disease might be prevented", said lead researcher Dr. Paul Terry".
The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire giving details of their diet, smoking habits, alcohol consumption and physical activity. Over the next 30 years 466 were diagnosed with prostate cancer. Of these, 340 died from the disease. The researchers found that the men who ate no fish had a two to three-fold higher risk of prostate cancer than those who ate moderate or high amounts. Dr. Paul Terry said: "Our study was done in Sweden, a country with traditionally high consumption of fatty fish from Northern (cold) waters, which contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. "Since few dietary and other modifiable factors seem to be associated with lower risk of prostate cancer, our results may indicate an important means by which this disease might be prevented".
Dr. John Toy, Medical Director at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, said: "This is an interesting study that has surveyed an unusually large number of men and certainly adds to our knowledge. "It also provides encouragement that eating fish is a practical thing men can do to help lower their own risk of prostate cancer."
Dr. Toy said it was vital that both men and women ate a healthy, balanced diet as it can help reduce the risk of cancer and other serious diseases. Imperial Cancer estimates that about 35% of all cancers may be preventable by changing diet. Its Oxford unit is leading a study of prostate cancer and diet as part of a European study called EPIC. Dr Chris Hiley, of the Prostate Cancer Charity, said: "This is a useful addition to what we know because it involves something happening to real people rather than theories based on laboratory experiments." One in 13 men in the UK will get prostate cancer. The disease affects about 20,000 men each year, killing half. The research is published in the 31 May, 2001, issue of "The Lancet".
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