Several new studies strengthen the positive diet – prostate cancer relationship.
#1 Reported in Cancer Medicine [2021;10(20):7298-7307], a major study known as the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study with more than 26,000 participants, showed that those who consumed the most milk had a 37% higher risk for developing prostate cancer than those who consumed less milk.
#2 Reported in the Nutrition Journal [2016;15(1):91-99], this major meta-analysis combining 11 prior studies had convincingly shown the positive relationship between dairy products and prostate cancer. The researchers suspect as a possible mechanism behind the increased risk the higher insulin-like growthfactor-1 (IGF-1).
#3 Reported as an abstract in the Journal of Urology [2021;Sept.1], the researchers followed more than 47,000 men comparing plant-based diet intake and prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates as part of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Adherence to a more plant-base diet lowered the risk of death from cancer as well as risk for total and advanced prostate cancer among younger men by 19%.
#4. Reported in the Journal Urology, [2008;72(6):1319-1323] Dean Ornish MD and his team showed that an entirely plant-based diet could dramatically improve the clinical course among men previously diagnosed with prostate cancer.