{"id":16826,"date":"2021-10-14T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16826"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:00:15","slug":"4-foods-to-eat-to-lower-prostate-cancer-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/prostate\/4-foods-to-eat-to-lower-prostate-cancer-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Foods to Eat to Lower Prostate Cancer Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most men don&#8217;t realize they can control prostate problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all, an enlarged prostate is something many men get as they age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, there are ways to reduce prostate growth risk and even lower your risk for prostate cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of those ways is to add some things to your diet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors still aren&#8217;t sure exactly how diet is related to prostate health but some believe high sugar, fatty foods can increase risks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there are some foods health experts believe are &#8220;prostate friendly&#8221; and think that adding more of these to your diet will reduce your risk of prostate problems down the road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. Tomatoes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomatoes are a fruit that has lycopene, which is a strong antioxidant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research indicates that lycopene helps reduce prostate cancer risks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A series of 24 studies suggest that men who add more tomatoes to their diets were less likely to get prostate cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lycopene is thought to slow cancer cell production and decrease damage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. Broccoli<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broccoli may not be a favorite among most men, but it is highly nutritious and has lots of stuff that add cancer protection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, studies indicate adding more cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower, to a diet will lower prostate cancer risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is thought that sulforaphane found in broccoli targets and kills cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Green tea<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ingredients in green tea can slow tumor growth, prevent the death of healthy cells and also affect hormone signaling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the compounds in it include epicatechin, xanthine derivatives, and epigallocatechin gallate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>4. Legumes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, beans are the magical fruit, and eating them along with other legumes like peanuts and lentils can help prostate health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have a compound called phytoestrogens and people who ate a lot of this compound had a 20 percent reduction in prostate cancer risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no time like the present to take control of your health. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding a few things to your diet will mean a lot to you, and your prostate, later in life. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most men don&#8217;t realize they can control prostate problems. After all, an enlarged prostate is something many men get as they age.\u00a0 Yet, there are ways to reduce prostate growth risk and even lower your risk for prostate cancer. One of those ways is to add some things to your diet.\u00a0 Doctors still aren&#8217;t sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697],"tags":[731,1393],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prostate","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-reduce-risk-of-prostate-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}