Veggies & the Prostate, Part 2.Vegetables and fruits rich in beta-carotene and lutein lutein /lu·te·in/ (-in) 1. a lipochrome from the corpus luteum, fat cells, and egg yolk. 2. any lipochrome. lu·te·in n. 1. may lower the risk of having a benign enlarged prostate Enlarged Prostate Definition A non-cancerous condition that affects many men past 50 years of age, enlarged prostate makes urinating more difficult by narrowing the urethra, a tube running from the bladder through the prostate gland. . Scientists compared roughly 6,000 men who had surgery or symptoms of an enlarged prostate to more than 18,000 men with a trouble-free prostate. Those who averaged at least 1 1/2 daily servings of carrots, yellow squash, yams, spinach, cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. , kale kale, borecole (bôr`kōl), and collards, common names for nonheading, hardy types of cabbage (var. , romaine lettuce, peaches, or other beta-carotene-rich fruits or vegetables had a 13 percent lower risk of an enlarged prostate than those who consumed only about one serving a week. Likewise, men who consumed at least 1 1/2 daily servings of spinach, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts Brussels sprouts, variety (gemmifera) of cabbage producing small edible heads (sprouts) along the stem. It is cultivated like cabbage and was first developed in Belgium and France in the 18th cent. , celery, peas, yellow squash, and other lutein-rich fruits and vegetables had a 17 percent lower risk than men who consumed only about one serving a week. Tomatoes and other lycopene-rich foods the men ate had no impact on their risk of an enlarged prostate. What to do: It's worth eating those vitamin-packed fruits and vegetables while researchers gather more evidence about diet and the prostate. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 85: 523, 2007. |
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