The Natural Prostate Cure
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Chapter 2: Fats
Fatty foods of all kinds, especially saturated animal fats like
red meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, seem to hold a hypnotic
attraction for many people. Studies for the last forty years have proven
repeatedly that high-fat diets cause all manner of disease, poor health, and
early death. Deep inside, we all know that high-fat diets are bad for us.
They cause obesity, clog our arteries, cause various cancers, and shorten
our lives. Fortunately, the Atkins or ketogenic diet is now fading. of.
Eating all the meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products you want is obviously
the road to Hell. It seems that people just want an excuse to do what they
want to do and endlessly rationalize bad habits. In America and all the
European countries, the diet is about 40 percent fats, most of which are
saturated animal fats. The more affluent a society is, the richer its diet
is in animal foods, dairy products, and other saturated fats - and the
higher the disease rates of all kinds.
Study after study shows that a
high fat intake is correlated with almost every disease known. This is not
debatable. It is especially true with prostate disease and prostate cancer.
There are just too many studies to list that show the relation of fat
intake, especially saturated animal fat, to prostate disease. Please take a
long look at the Prostate Cancer Mortality chart on the next page; it will
leave no doubt in your mind that saturated fat intake is the major cause of
prostate cancer deaths. The chart is based on the diets of literally
billions of people, and just cannot be contested. Men in countries like
Vietnam and Red China eat about 10 percent fat calories, mostly from
vegetables. These people have 1/120th prostate cancer deaths of those we
have in America. That means that if 200 men per million die from prostate
cancer in a country like Denmark, fewer than 2 men per million die in
Vietnam. Point made.
Hydrogenated
fats are the worst as they do not exist in nature, and are made in
laboratories with hydrogen gas, extreme pressures and platinum catalysts.
The body simply cannot deal with this artificial, synthetic fat, so it ends
up clogging our arteries. Eating vegetable oils is simply a lesser evil. The
idea that there are “good fats” and “bad fats” is an illusion. The less
fat you eat, the better! The less fat you eat the healthier you will be,
and the longer you will live. When Asian or African men move to the United
States and keep their traditional diets they get almost no prostate disease,
unless they adopt the typical American diet of 40 percent-plus fat. This is
called a “migration study,” and the results are inarguable.
Mediterranean countries that
consume olive oil rather than butter do have slightly lower prostate disease
rates than other European countries, but much higher rates than Asian
countries. The only exception to the fat “rule” is when a supplement of one
or two grams per day of flaxseed oil is taken. Flax oil contains valuable
omega-3 fatty acids, at a mere 9 calories per gram, an insignificant daily
calorie intake. Our diets’ ratio of omega-6 fatty acids-to-omega-3s is too
high, and we eat few foods that contain the omega-3s.
The American Health Foundation, in
Valhalla, NY has done a fine job of showing that a low-fat, high-fiber diet
slows the development of prostate cancer. Native South African black men
have extremely low prostate disease rates on their traditional diets. When
fed a typical American high-fat diet, their testosterone levels fell,
estrogen levels rose (and thus their testosterone-to-estrogen ratio
worsened), and they got more prostate disease.1,2
Again, the American Health
Foundation did an in-depth review of the literature to show that omega-6
fatty acids stimulate prostate cancer growth, while omega-3 fatty acids
(flax oil) inhibit it.3 The problem is that the omega-3s are rare
in foods, while omega-6s are all too common. Red meat contains arachidonic
acid, which is generally non-existent in plant foods. This is considered to
be the single most dangerous fatty acid known, and is a precursor of the
inflammatory chemical Prostaglandin E2. The same thing basically
was shown at the Harvard Medical School, as well as a long list of other
diseases that are clearly associated with fat intake. Studies continue at
the University of Tokyo, University of Wales, University of Michigan,
National Cancer Institute, University of Ohio, and many other clinics around
the world, and all are coming to the same conclusion.4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
It is quite obvious that fat
intake, especially animal fat, is the biggest dietary factor in prostate
disease. The more fats you eat, especially saturated fats, the more chance
you have of getting BPH, prostatitis, and prostate cancer. Would you rather
eat red meat and dairy products, and die a painful, lingering, premature
death, or change your diet and live a healthier, happier, longer life?
Eating fat raises your estrogen level, causes all manner of illness, and
makes you obese. This is the main reason American and European men over the
age of fifty have estrogen levels that are actually higher than women of the
same age! That’s right, Western men over fifty generally have more estrogen
(estradiol and estrone) in their blood than their wives do after menopause!
This is frightening. Fat intake also increases the level we have of damaging
“free radicals” in our body. Free radicals are molecules with unpaired
electrons, which damage our health by attacking healthy cells while trying
to balance the electrical charge they carry. This is called “oxidative
damage,” and harms our metabolism and shortens our life span.
The ideal diet contains only 10
percent fat calories from vegetables (or even seafood). The maximum is 20
percent fat-calories, mostly from vegetables. Eating any more fat than this
will simply not benefit you. Lowering fat intake from 40 percent
fat-calories to say 25 percent, won’t do much at all. To benefit from a
low-fat diet you just have to eat less than 20 percent fat-calories,
preferably about 10 percent. Pseudo-scientific “studies” will lower human
dietary fat-calorie intake to around 30 percent, and then claim there were
no benefits found — no wonder!
References:
1. Bulletin
NY Academy of Medicine 56 (1980), pp. 673-96
2. Cancer Research 42 (1982), pp. 3864-69
3. Journal of the National Cancer Inst. 85 (1993), pp. 1571-79
4. Lipids 27 (1992), pp. 798-803
5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental and Biological
Medicine 216 (1997), pp. 224-33
6.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 66 (1997),
pp. 998S-1003S
7. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 85 (1993), pp. 1571-79
8. Nutrition Research 14 (1994), pp. 1853-95
9. Cancer Research 54 (1994), pp. 6129-32
10. British Journal of Urology 77 (1996), pp. 481-93
11. Anticancer Research 16 (1996), pp. 815-20
12. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Preview 5 (1996),
pp. 859-60
13. Annual Review of Nutrition 18 (1998), pp. 413-40
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