Lowering Dietary Fat May Help Prevent Prostate Cancer
May 15th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer preventionAccording to researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, eating less polyunsaturated fat, the kind often found in baked and fried goods, helps prevent prostate cancer. Right now, results are available in mice, but scientista are confident they will succeed in men because mouse model closely mimics human cancer.
Research also found that precancerous prostate cells, or those that would soon become cancer, grew much more slowly in the mice eating the low-fat diet. The fat used in the study came mostly from corn oil, which is made up primarily of omega-6 fatty acids — the polyunsaturated fat commonly found in Western diets.
The study senior author William Aronson said that a short-term study in men will determine whether diets affect malignant and benign human prostate tissue.
The study was published in the April 15 issue of the Cancer Research.
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