UPDATED June 13, 2013
— A diet that reduces carbohydrates and
animal fat intake and boosts vegetable fat consumption could benefit men
with prostate cancer, a new observational study concludes.
This dietary-fat mix mirrors a heart-healthy diet and was associated
with better overall and prostate-cancer-related mortality in a large
cohort of men, report the authors, led by Erin Richman, ScD, from the
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of
California, San Francisco.
"Overall, our findings support counseling men with prostate cancer to
follow a heart-healthy diet in which carbohydrate calories are replaced
with unsaturated oils and nuts to reduce the risk of all-cause
mortality," write the authors.
Nuts and vegetable oils (such olive and canola oil) were the 2
sources of vegetable fats associated with reduced overall and
disease-specific mortality.
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