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Can Dairy Save Your Prostate?
By: Herb Denenberg - The Advocate, Special To The Evening Bulletin
07/05/2006
Question: What is one of the most consistent dietary predictors of prostate cancer?
Answer: A 2001 Harvard study asked that question, and here's the answer: "Men with the highest dairy intakes had approximately double the risk of total prostate cancer, and up to a fourfold increase in risk of metastatic or fatal prostate cancer relative to low consumers [meaning low in consumption of dairy products]."
The studies also find animal food - animal protein, meats, dairy products and eggs - is associated with prostate cancer and plant foods are associated with preventing prostate cancer.
These conclusions led a great authority on nutrition science to conclude that the way to prevent prostate cancer, and a long list of other cancers and diseases, is to follow a plant-based diet and avoid animal-based foods as much as possible. That authority is T. Colin Campbell, one of the authors of the most comprehensive study of the diet/health connection in history. The study's conclusions appear in his book, The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health (2006).
This conclusion is one of many reasons that Dr. Walter Willett and the Harvard School of Public Health, in their book, Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (2001), recommend avoiding heavy consumption of milk because the association between consumption of milk and prostate cancer.
The diet/prostate connection became apparent to researchers due to three findings, according to Dr. Campbell:
"Prostate cancer rates vary widely between different countries, even more than breast cancer.
High prostate cancer rates primarily exist in societies with 'Western' diets and lifestyles.
In developing countries men who adopt Western eating practices or move to Western countries suffer more prostate cancer."
The next question is why does the Western diet cause prostate cancer? According to Dr. Campbell, there are two mechanisms.
First, there is the Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) that is turning out to be a predictor of cancer just as cholesterol is a predictor of heart disease. This Growth Factor 1, under normal conditions manages which cells grow, i.e., "how they reproduce themselves and how they discard old cells, all in the name of good health."
If Growth Factor 1 becomes more active, it causes new cells to grow and inhibits the removal of old ones. Those two developments are conducive to cancer.
And how does diet impact all that? Animal-based foods increase the blood levels of Growth Factor 1.
Second, in the scenario that develops prostate cancer, is how our body processes Vitamin D, which can affect not only prostate cancer, but also breast cancer, colon cancer, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes. You can get vitamin D from non-dairy foods such as fatty fishes (e.g., salmon, tuna, and bluefish), fortified breakfast cereals, soymilk, and supplements or from sunlight or ultraviolet light hitting your skin. In addition, milk is fortified with vitamin D and other dairy products such as yogurt are also sources.
For proper functioning, the body processes vitamin D and produces what might be called supercharged vitamin D, which, Dr. Campbell writes, "produces many benefits throughout the body, including the prevention of cancer, autoimmune diseases and diseases like osteoporosis." You can't get the supercharged vitamin D from foods or drugs (a drug that attempted to deliver it would be too powerful and too dangerous). You have to rely on the body's processing vitamin D into supercharged vitamin D.
The dietary connection is that animal protein has a tendency to block the formation of supercharged vitamin D, which is essential to prevent cancer and other diseases and maintain health.
Campbell 's bottom line: "There is no single 'mechanism' that fully explains what causes diseases such as cancer. Indeed, it would be foolish to even think along these lines. But what I do know is this: the totality and breadth of evidence, operating through highly coordinated networks, supports the conclusion that consuming dairy and meat are serious risk factors for prostate cancer." And that's a serious, as prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men, accounting for 25 percent of their cancers. What's more, by age 70 as many as half of all men have prostate cancer.
This column has focused on prostate cancer. But the plant-based diet is central to preventing and even treating most of the leading chronic diseases and killers.
Dr. Campbell says that doctors, the government, and other organizations should be going with the evidence, which is "the toxicity of our diet is the single biggest cause of cancer." He says it is as though doctors and the rest of the health care delivery system are unaware of the diet/health connection or are reluctant to share it. He adds that a whole foods, plant-based diet is an "incredibly effective anti-cancer medicine"
