Diet & Prostate Cancer

[andyswarbs]

For anyone thinking that diet has no effect on cancer, then new research is looking promising that you may indicate need to rethink that opinion. medscape.com/viewarticle/89...

[BadHare]

Diet impacts every aspect of our health & wellbeing

I wish as much advertising & chugging went in to I’ll health prevention rather than cancer research.

[andyswarbs in reply to BadHare]

All this cancer research has the feel of a scam. Raise lots of public donations on the back of some people in dire straights and miss the big picture of 1000s of people who should never have cancer in the first place.

[BadHare in reply to andyswarbs]

I'm appalled by the fact that the youngsters hassling people on the streets for charities have a quota of people to sign up, or they're sacked. Dreadful practice!

[Hidden]

I bet a lot of corruption goes with "charities" with highly well paid managers and fundraisers, dubious behaviour in poor countries. It runs like a big business and they pay no tax. Charity Commisson should do more to check if they are doing what they are supposed to be doing.

As for cancer, too much is invested on the diagnostics and radiation/chemo therapies. But we all need to realise we are not immortal. One doctor said, such and such died eating vegan, clean, health food and this clean living guy assumed he never gets cancer. He died in his 50s from cancer. Another guy who enjoyed everything in moderation lived to 109. It says all to me.

Another thing is, how you want to die. I have seen the not so great side of living too long, dying in a beautifully equipped care home, yet losing a lot of functions, depending on care staff 24/7. But that's another question.

Enjoy life whist you can!

[andyswarbs in reply to Hidden]

A number of early vegan deaths have been linked to b12, which is why there is a lot of encouragement to ensure people get sufficient in their diet. A cheap and easy solution with no harm to animals.

There are always people who die (or don't die) of this that or the other who are exceptions to the rule. We should not base our own actions on exceptions, much better that we should follow the research. Especially when that research follows a consistent trend by different researchers with different agendas over many years.

Imo, care homes are not where we should end up. We should be living healthful lives into our dotage. Sadly we live in a society where old age that is unhealthy has become the average expectancy. But it does not need to be like that. Remove foods that cause likely harm eg cancer promoting foods (incl bacon and sausages but also important to research food labels for known carcinogens) and replace them with health promoting foods eg ground flax seed which has possibly the highest omega-3 properties with none of the downsides of fish oils.

Based on a continuously improving diet, getting into a healthy cardio-exercise regime and finally surrounding yourself with a supportive social network of family and friends. These are the tenets of the Blue Zones where people live happily and healthily to over a 100 as the norm.