Prostate Cancer And Dietary Fat By Dr. Meyers

One of the strongest links with promotion of prostate cancer has been
established for dietary fat.


Many tests have confirmed that a died rich
in
red meat and animal fat leads to higher death rates from prostate
cancer. Why
this is so has been much more difficult to prove. It appears that the
culprit
is arachnadonic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in red meat, animal
fat and
egg yolk. This fatty acid is converted by prostate cancer cells into a
hormone that actively promotes development of the blood vessels
(angiogenesis) that cancer tumours need in order to grow. Dr Myers
advises
all prostate cancer patients to completely eliminate red meat from their

diet. He recommends a vegan diet and follows one himself.

Dr Myers believes there is evidence linking alpha lineolic acid (the
omega-3
fatty acid in flax seed oil) with increased metastatic prostate cancer.
Laboratory tests have shown when this substance is placed in contact
with
live prostate cancer cells, the rate of growth of the cancer cells
increases
by up to three hundred percent. A similar result was obtained in a test
of
15,000 doctors reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
in
1994. THE GROUP WHO TOOK OMEGA 3 OILS EXPERIENCED A THREE TIMES GREATER
RATE
OF PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS THAN THE REMAINDER.

One of Dr Myers patients, who had no detectable prostate cancer, was
being
treated for high blood cholesterol. The patient's wife persuaded him to
take
quantities of flax seed oil in hope of reducing his cholesterol. Whin
three
months, the patient had developed a PSA of 100 with extensive metastatic

prostate cancer. These findings were most disturbing as omega-3 from
flax oil
is considered a strongly anti-cancer agent for other types of cancer. Dr

Myers suggests that prostate cancer patients adopt a predominantly
vegetarian
diet and that, if any oil is consumed, it should be only olive oil and
definitely not flax seed oil. In reply to a question, he said that the
omega-3 oil in deep-sea fish was harmless to prostate cancer patients,
as it
was not plant-derived.

Summing up on diet, he considers diet is at least as important as any
other
treatment for prostate cancer. In his experience, a vegan (vegetarian)
diet
can halve the PSA doubling rate, even for those on watchful waiting. His
book
'EATING YOUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH" has full details of his
recommendations
and should be read by every prostate cancer patient.