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Mediterranean diet

A heart-healthy diet, and even moderate alcohol intake, may help decrease the risk of prostate problems in men, a new study has found.

The study showed that a high-fat diet increased the risk of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia, known as BPH (a condition associated with frequent and painful urination that affects about half of all men by the time they reach 50 and nearly all men by age 70), by 31 percent and daily consumption of red meat increased the risk of BPH by 38 percent.

High fat diet and excess calories

People that consume food containing high levels of fat are more likely to have colon, prostate, breast and pancreatic cancers. Low incidence of nutritionally-linked cancer in Japan and around the Mediterranean is due to the popularity of monounsaturated oil such as olive oil and, n-3 polyunsaturated oils such as fish oils.

The reason why many people in these countries are healthy and are able to live for more than a hundred years is because of the large amounts of olive oil consumed in each meal. Another contributing factor is also in the red wine, which also has antioxidants properties.

The Mediterranean Diet involves eating food in large, moderate and small quantities.

Large - Daily level. The person should eat a lot of food such as beans, bread, cereals, fruits, grains and nuts since these contain minerals, nutrients and vitamins good for the body. Not too much cheese, milk and yogurt.
Moderate - Weekly level. The individual can have fish, unskinned poultry, eggs and few sweets since this way will prevent consumption of other things that are high fat saturated.
Small - Monthly level. The products that should be consumed lightly is red meat such as pork and beef, which can be done 1 - 2 times in a month.

The healthy Mediterranean diet teaches the individual to eat right. In order to live healthy like these people it is best to engage in some form of physical activity to be able to burn those extra calories. A few simple examples could be brisk walking, jogging and running.

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