OK, Marcules, I've put in bold the dietary info.:
Quotes from Dr. Michael Colgan's book 1:
(1.) 'If you feed mice a typical Western diet, they develop prostate disease'
'The crucial difference between these diets was the
higher saturated fat content of the Western food'
(I can provide more info. if anyone wants)
(2.) 'Meats,
especially red meats, are not only high in saturated fats, but also contain high levels of arachidonic acid. This preformed Omega-6 fat is the precursor of a highly inflammatory compound in your body called Prostglandin E2'
'Men who eat large amounts of
red meats are likely to create a pro-inflammatory condition in all their tissues'
'We have demonstrated the anti-inflammatory benefits of giving up red meat with many hundreds of athletes over the last 25 years.
The levels of arachidonic acid in their bodies decline dramatically within weeks. Rates of connective tissue injury and other inflammatory conditions also decline by up to 70%'.
(3.) Quoting Dr. William Fair of Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York:
'We can take a man with a high PSA, put him on a diet containing only 15% fat calories and watch his PSA drop by 20% in three months'.
'Remember saturated fats are not only in
meats and dairy products by also include all hydrogenated vegetable fats in margerine, cooking oils and baked goods'
Quotes from Michael Colgan's book 2:
(1) 'About age 30, males start converting more of their testosterone into another form called dihydrotestosterone'
'In combination with some other compounds, increased dihydrotestosterone causes male pattern baldness'
(2) 'First, cut down on
animal protein which may be pushing your dihydrotestosterone too high'
'Second,
cut all animal fat'
Third,
cut polyunsaturated fats (on the premise that they're just as bad as animal fats.
Some supporting material I found:
Red meat, which contains more than 50 percent fat, has also been associated with an increased incidence of prostate cancer.32
A high-fat diet increases the level of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1).33 High levels of IGF-1 increase the risk of prostate cancer.34,35
(As we know, IGF-1 is raised in vertex baldness - 'In addition,
for each 59 ng/mL increase in IGF-1, the odds of having vertex baldness doubled (95% CI [1.0 to 4.6] ).' -
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1689341 )
http://healthy-aging.advanceweb.com/com ... 07-01-2006
Volume 7 Number 10, Obesity & Prostate Cancer, II: The key to longer life may well be eating less: 1500 calories for women, 1800 for men elevated IGF1 levels, as well as the proteins that appear to be involved in prostate cancer progression, ûare involved in aging, and can be altered by diet. One of the disadvantages of an Atkins-like high protein diet (particularly one rich in animal protein) ûis that it stimulates IGF1 production
http://www.prostateforum.com/backissues.htm
