High Fat Diet Cancer Prone
Posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
by Dr K K Aggarwal
Heart Care Foundation of India
As per a report from University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston published in the International Journal of Cancer, men who consume high saturated animal fat diet are two times more likely to experience disease progression after prostate cancer surgery than men with lower saturated fat intake. There is also shorter "disease-free" survival time among obese men who eats high amounts of saturated fat compared with non-obese men consuming diets low in saturated fat. In the study obese men with a high saturated fat intake had the shortest survival time free of prostate cancer (19 months), while non-obese men with low intake survived the longest time free of the disease (46months). Non-obese men with high intake and obese men with low intake had "disease-free" survival of 29 and 42 months, respectively. Saturated fat if high in they diet already has been linked to cancer of the prostate and the new study now shows that reducing saturated fat in the diet after prostate cancer surgery can help reduce the cancer progression.
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