The UCLA researchers found that a low-fat, high-fiber diet and daily exercise can slow prostate cancer cell growth. "This is the first study to directly measure the effects of diet and exercise on inhibiting growth of prostate cancer cells and it strongly suggests that a low-fat diet and exercise regimen favorably affects the levels of hormones or growth factors that influence prostate cancer growth," says William Aronson, senior author of the study that appeared recently in Journal of Urology.1
Aronson and colleagues at the Jonsson Cancer Center and the department of physiological science studied two groups of healthy men, aged 38 to 74--a short-term group comprised of 13 overweight men who did not have a history of eating healthy or exercising regularly, and a long-term group that featured eight men who had subscribed to healthy living for 14 years or more. They put both groups on a strict 11-day diet ...
