Study: Strict diet (vegetarian) may stop prostate cancer (Cnn.com)

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/08/11/prostate.cancer.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A radical ultra low-fat diet and other lifestyle changes may help keep early-stage prostate cancer from worsening, says the first attempt to test the theory.

It's a small study that tracked men whose tumors weren't aggressive. Still, the research, published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology, promises to increase interest in whether diet might really help battle cancer.

The study was led by heart-health guru Dr. Dean Ornish, and used his famously strict regimen, where people become vegetarians, limit dietary fat to 10 percent of total calories, exercise regularly and learn stress-management techniques such as yoga.

Ornish's studies show that regimen can help heart disease, but why try it on prostate cancer? There is some evidence that diets high in fat increase the risk of prostate cancer, and that certain foods -- such as broccoli, or the nutrient lycopene from cooked tomato products -- are protective.

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1. BUT WHAT ABOUT PROTEIN!!!!1111

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2. THAT'S HUGH!!!!!!

MAN BAGS NEED PROTEEAM!!!!!!!!!!111

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3. I'M SERIES!!!!1111 It can help!

At least according to Dirk Benedict, the actor.

He wrote a very interesting autobiography called "Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy" in which he details treating his prostate cancer with macrobiotics, which is a vegetarian diet.

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4. I remember hearing something about that.

I had a big crush on him when he was Lt. Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica. :)

I read one of Michio Kuchi's books on Macrobiotics when I was still in my twenties, and it was a revelation. It's amazing how diet can shape you physically, mentally and emotionally. And spiritually, of course. That's one of the most important reasons for avoiding animal products.