The Prevention of Prostate Cancer

Only you can answer the question, What is the prevention of prostate cancer worth to me? But before you answer, you need to understand that statistics on prostate cancer may, in fact, underestimate the prevalence of the disease by a huge factor.

If you are a man, you should know what you can do to prevent prostate cancer while you are still young, because by the time you get it (usually between the ages of 50 and 70), it's too late.

The American Cancer Society believes that a quarter of a million new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed this year. The disease kills over 30,000 men in the United States every year. You should also understand that statistics on the prevalence of prostate cancer may underestimate the prevalence of the disease by a huge factor. In 2005 a study was released based on autopsies done on over a thousand men 70 years of age or over in six different countries. Of those who died of some cause other than cancer, 80% had undiagnosed prostate cancer. So the question: What is the prevention of prostate cancer worth to me?

Is it worth reducing the amount of trans-fat in your diet? That means not using cheap hydrogenated vegetable oil for cooking. Are your testes worth that? How about animal fat? You'll have to trim off the fat on those ribs steaks and buy lean hamburger.And what about leafy green vegetables? Is your life or manhood worth eating lettuce or broccoli? No? How about taking Vitamin E supplements? You can handle that? Great. And Vitamin D - the vitamin you get from sunlight. More time in the bleachers at Wrigley instead of under the canopy. Could you handle that for the sake of ten more years with your loved ones, when you're old and retired and have nothing to do but what you want? If you can handle the above, you're preventing Prostate cancer, you health nut, you.