Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Foods for Prostate Health
- Good nutrition can help prevent prostate cancer
- What should be done to get good nutrition?
- 1. Eat lots of vegetables and fruit
- 2. Limit your fat intake
- 3. Get fat intake from vegetable sources rather than animal sources
- 4. Eat fish
Medical Video: 5 Foods for Prostate Health
Prostate cancer is one type of cancer that lurks men. Men who are 65 years or older or men who have offspring or family members (father or child) who have prostate cancer have a higher risk of prostate cancer. However, you can prevent prostate cancer. Applying a good diet to get the right nutrition can help you prevent prostate cancer.
Good nutrition can help prevent prostate cancer
By applying good nutrition, of course you can avoid various diseases, including prostate cancer. The habit of eating healthy foods can contribute to overall health and can also help boost the immune system against all diseases.
A healthy diet can help you meet every important nutritional requirement, including lycopene, selenium and other nutrients. Fulfilling these nutritional needs from vegetables and fruits can help you reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Instead, applying poor eating habits, such as eating lots of foods high in fat and high in sugar, can increase the risk of prostate cancer.
In addition, maintaining good eating habits can also help you maintain your weight. You need to know that being overweight is one of the risk factors for prostate cancer. Being overweight or obese can increase your risk of prostate cancer.
What should be done to get good nutrition?
The main thing you have to do is apply healthy eating habits. Choose foods that are healthy for consumption. That way, you can get various important nutrients that your body needs. So that your health is maintained and helps you prevent prostate cancer.
Some of the things you can do to get good nutrition in an effort to prevent prostate cancer are:
1. Eat lots of vegetables and fruit
By eating more vegetables and fruits, you can get more important nutrients. Vegetables and fruits contain many substances that can fight cancer and reduce inflammation, such as vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, antioxidants, and fiber.
Some examples of vegetables and fruits that are important for you to consume as an effort to prevent prostate cancer are tomatoes (containing lycopene), carrots (beta-carotene and falcarinol), broccoli (sulforaphane phytochemicals), fungi (betaglucan and lectin), soybeans (phytoestrogens), pomegranate ( antioxidants), and much more.
2. Limit your fat intake
In several studies, men who consumed high amounts of fat every day had an increased risk of prostate cancer. Although evidence hasn't shown that excess fat can cause prostate cancer, it doesn't hurt if you reduce your fat intake. This can help you control your weight.
It's best to limit your consumption of high-fat foods, such as fatty meats, fried foods, high-fat milk, and others. And, choose foods that are low in fat, such as lean meat, low-fat milk, or foods that are cooked without fat (such as those fried in oil or margarine).
3. Get fat intake from vegetable sources rather than animal sources
A study shows that fat consumption from animals has a greater possibility of being associated with the risk of prostate cancer. So, you better choose a source of fat from plants (vegetable fats) than animals. You can start trying to change your cooking habits, from the usual ones using butter to olive oil for cooking. You can also use fat from nuts and fruits (such as avocados) as a source of your healthy fat.
4. Eat fish
Fish, especially fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, sardines, and herring) contain high omega-3 fatty acids. This fatty acid has been linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer. You need to get these omega-3 fatty acids from food because they are not synthesized by the body.
