Prostate Cancer :: Diet may help fight prostate cancer

Dr. Dean Ornish and associates at the University of California, San Francisco, recruited 93 men who had chosen the option of ‘watchful waiting’ for their early-stage, non-aggressive prostate cancer.

The researchers randomly assigned half of the subjects to follow Ornish?s lifestyle regimen, which includes a vegetarian diet, severe limitation of fat intake; exercise and stress management. The others maintained their usual habits.

When PSA (prostate specific antigen) tests were performed on the participants? blood, the investigators found that, after a year, those on the Ornish regimen had a 4% drop in PSA levels, which is ‘unusual for untreated patients.’

On the other hand, PSA levels rose an average of 6% for the control group.

In addition, six of the controls had undergone conventional treatment because their cancer was progressing; whereas none on the Ornish regimen underwent such treatment.

The scientists will continuing tracking the men to gauge longterm effects.