Handful of walnuts a day may help prevent prostate cancer. Researchers found, snack nuts on this one can reduce the size and slow tumor growth.
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Although the experiments conducted on rats, researchers believe that the results are also relevant to humans. To optimize the health, researchers recommend consumption of 14 walnuts a day.
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer that affects men and is the number two cancer killer after lung cancer. In the UK, about 35,000 newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer per year and 10,000 of them died.
Although the cause of the disease is not yet clearly known, this type of cancer associated with diet. Prostate cancer is more commonly experienced by those who eat fatty food but less fruit and vegetables.
Walnuts, rich in chemicals health boosters, including omega-3 fatty acids, previously has been shown to prevent breast cancer and heart disease. Therefore walnut balanced diet should be made a part along with many fruits and vegetables.
In this latest study, researchers from the University of California studied mice that are genetically designed risk of prostate cancer. Some rats received additional walnuts into their diets for two months.
However, Dr Helen Rippon light from the Prostate Cancer Charity is still too early to claim that walnuts can prevent prostate cancer, both in men and in rats that have been modified.
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