Intense exercise
, the kind that brings on a good sweat, may help keep prostate cancer at bay. That’s the suggestion of research conducted at the University of California in San Francisco, where scientists tracked tens of thousands of midlife and older men for more than 20 years, noting their healthy lifestyle habits and their incidence of prostate cancer. Ready? The envelope please….the researchers found that vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits may cut their chances of developing a lethal type of prostate cancer by up to 68 percent. A UCSF news release reports that the researchers analyzed data from two U.S. studies: the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study that tracked more than 42,000 males ages 40 to 75, from 1986 to 2010; and a second, the Physicians’ Health Study that followed more than 20,000 males ages 40 to 84, from 1982 to 2010. They assigned one point for each affirmative response to questions about regular intense exercise that induced sweating, body mass index (BMI) under 30, tobacco-free status for a minimum of 10 years, high intake of fatty fish, high intake of tomatoes and low intake of processed meat. Men with five to six points in the health professionals’ group had a 68 percent decreased risk of lethal prostate cancer and a 38 percent decreased risk was observed in the physicians’ group for the same comparison. For dietary factors alone, men with three points, versus those with zero points, had a 46 percent decreased chance of developing lethal prostate cancer in the health professionals’ group, while in the physicians’ group the decrease was 30 percent. The researchers are convinced that 47 percent of lethal prostate cancer cases would be prevented in the United States if men over 60 had five or more of these healthy habits.
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