Lifestyle and Diet Changes Help Slow Down Prostate Cancer

The most common cancer in American men, with around 200,000 new cases diagnosed each year and approximately 31,000 deaths each year, prostate cancer is serious and if left untreated, deadly.

Since common methods may actually be adding insult to injury, natural methods are being suggested and adviced. In this case, it's changing your lifestyle and diet to a healthy one. Doing so may help slow the progression of prostate cancer.

It has been noted in studies worldwide that staying within a healthy weight range and eating more plant-based food as opposed to animal products may possibly delay or prevent the development of prostate cancer.

Evidence is mounting that foods rich in vitamin E and the mineral selenium may dramatically decrease both the incidence of prostate cancer and the risk of dying from it.

Men who take those nutritional supplements in certain doses actually suffer less prostate cancer and a lower mortality rate due to prostate cancer.

Researchers recommend that men increase their intake of these vitamins and minerals through whole foods. Seafood, meat and Brazil nuts are good selenium sources, while vegetable oils, sweet potatoes, avocados, and nuts are rich in vitamin E.

Men who consume higher levels of lycopene, a nutrient found in most tomato products, have also been shown to have a lower risk of prostate cancer.