Nutrition for a Healthy Prostate

Submitted by Wildwoodhealth • April 7, 2016 www.wildwoodhealth.org

Good, wholesome nutrition affords serious protection from prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer of men. The number of younger men diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased nearly 6-fold in the last 20 years and the disease is more likely to be aggressive in these younger men.(1) A boy being born today has an almost 1 in 7 chance of developing prostate cancer at some point in his life.(2) Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death in elderly men. How can you or the man in your life reduce his risk? Women often do have a part to play as they cook for the men in their lives.