University Lists Vitamin E Supplements As 'Best Bet' to Prevent Prostate Cancer; Cases Being Reduced

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University Lists Vitamin E Supplements As 'Best Bet' to Prevent Prostate Cancer;

Cases Being Reduced

PR Newswire

July 20, 2001

BERKELEY, Calif., Jul 20, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Vitamin E supplements

are one of the " best bets for preventing

prostate cancer, " according to a leading health and medicine publication

published by the University of California at

Berkeley.

After lung cancer, prostate cancer is the biggest cancer killer of American men.

In recent years, however, the incidence

of prostate cancer has dropped while survival rates are on the increase. The

improvement has been credited by health

specialists to a number of factors, including improved dietary intake.

The University of California Berkeley's publication, the Wellness Letter,

reports in its forthcoming August issue on

seven methods for men to lower the risk of prostate cancer.

Vitamin E supplements are helpful, the newsletter says, noting that Vitamin E

" also works with selenium, " another

recommended source. In addition to Vitamin E supplements and selenium, adequate

Vitamin D may also be protective,

according to the newsletter. Other ways to lower the risk of prostate cancer

include:

* Avoiding a high-fat diet, especially dietary intake that is rich in red meat

and other sources of animal fat.

* Eating lots of fruits, grains and vegetables.

* In particular, eating tomatoes and tomato sauce, which contain lycopene, a

carotenoid that appears to help prevent

prostate cancer. Watermelon and pink grapefruit are also good sources of

lycopene.

* Eating fatty fish. A recent Swedish study, the Wellness Letter reported, found

that men who ate little or no fish were

more than twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as those who ate moderate

to high amounts of fish.

The Wellness Letter, described as " the newsletter of nutrition, fitness and

self-care, " is published by the University

of California Berkeley's School of Public Health.

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