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Top 12 Food Components that Keep Your Prostate Healthy and Fight Cancer
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10. Turmeric
Some of the most recent studies show that turmeric has some really strong promise as a means of treating all different types of cancer, including cancer of the prostate. The curcumin in turmeric has compounds that protect the liver, destroy dangerous carcinogens in the body, and is a powerful free-radical scavenger, killing those elements that cause damage on a cellular level.
11. Tomatoes
Tomatoes and tomato products (such as tomato paste, sauce, juice, etc.) are also associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer, so be sure you add plenty of these red, juicy vegetables to your, diet. A study performed with more than 47,000 subjects at Harvard University in 2003 showed that men who ate 10 servings of tomatoes or tomato products each week reduced their risk of developing prostate cancer by a whopping 50 percent! This is thought to be due to the high level of lycopene that tomatoes have. Lycopene is what gives tomatoes their red color and is a type of carotene that is more powerful than even beta carotene.
12. Zinc
This mineral has been shown to be most effective at reliving enlarged or inflamed prostate glands. In fact, some studies show that a lack of zinc in the body often results in prostate enlargement. 50 to 100mgs of zinc is needed each day to shrink an enlarged prostate and most men find it next to impossible to consume enough foods to give them this amount of zinc in their diets. A good quality zinc supplement should be taken to eliminate a zinc deficiency as a cause of prostate enlargement.
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Marvin Zinn
Aug 9, 2015 at 10:09 pm
For my prostate cancer I refused surgery and radiation, for which doctors expected me dead by the end of last year. With graviola and turmeric, avoiding most sugar and all dairy products, I hardly notice it anymore. Probably I still have it, but obviously shrinking unless I go back to what I used to eat.