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Prostate cancer has a nutty solution, walnut consumption.

Prostate Cancer

With prostate cancer affecting one in six American men information of this nature is important. Diet is one of the environmental factors that play an important role. Diet either boosts your resistance to this, or is the connection to this condition.

Numerous clinical studies have shown that eating walnuts rich in omega 3 polyunsaturated fats, along with other antioxidants in plants decrease the risk for many diseases.

Walnuts

UC Davis and U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California have found that walnut consumption slows the growth of prostate cancer in mice. It also had beneficial effects on multiple genes that control tumor growth and metabolism. The study was done by Paul Davis, nutritionist in the Department of Nutrition and a researcher with the UC Davis Cancer Center. These findings were announced at the annual national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco recently.

The study showed that when mice with prostate tumors consume an amount of walnuts that a man can easily eat the tumor growth is controlled.

Davis fed a diet with whole walnuts to mice that had been genetically programmed to get prostate cancer. After 18 weeks, they found that consuming the human equivalent of 2.4 ounces of walnuts per day resulted in significantly smaller, slower-growing prostate tumors compared to mice consuming the same diet with an equal amount of fat, but not from walnuts.

Ralph deVere White, UC Davis Cancer Center director and a prostate cancer researcher. “We have to find a way to get these kinds of studies on nutritional products funded so that we can truly evaluate their effects on cancer patients.”

Conclusion

We don’t need studies to improve the quality of our life we need performance. The powers of studies eclipse the simple solution eat healthy foods. State-of-the art studies on state-of-the art naturally growing substances offers no protection, unless we do something with the information. If we wait for trials to see if it is safe and effective to eat whole foods, we will be destined to remain unhealthy.