Men with prostate cancer could significantly improve their survival chances
by eating more vegetable fats from nuts, oils and other sources, UCSF researchers have found.
Men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who replaced just 10 percent of their total daily carbohydrate intake with the same number of calories from vegetable fats had a 29 percent lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer and a 26 percent lower risk of dying from any cause during the study period.
The study took data from a large-scale Harvard School of Public Health study involving more than 51,000 men and followed nearly 4,600 of them between 1986 and 2010 who had early-stage prostate cancer. The study adjusted for age, weight, smoking and other health factors.
Researchers said the findings support counseling men with prostate cancer to replace a portion of their carbohydrate calories with unsaturated nuts and oils.
The research was published online Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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