Healthy choices
Eat well to live well
It doesn’t matter where you are on your journey, making healthy lifestyle choices and eating well with prostate cancer can help:
- Boost your energy levels and increase general health and wellbeing 1
- Maintain a healthy weight and subsequently reduce your risk of other health conditions like diabetes, 2 stroke, 3 high blood pressure, 3 sleep apnoea, 4 and other cancers 5
- Slow disease progression and reduce the likelihood of aggressive prostate cancer 6,7
- Improve your cardiovascular health, 8 protecting you from conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease
- Improve your quality of life 1 and even your life-expectancy 9
Did you know?
Studies have found that men who adopt a healthy diet after a prostate cancer diagnosis live longer than those who consume a ‘Western’ diet 9 – and also enjoy a better quality of life.1 A healthy diet is mostly made up of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and fish (as opposed to red and processed meats, high-fat dairy and refined grains like white rice and flour, which make up a ‘Western’ diet).
We want to help you discover how the foods you eat can impact your quality of life – and to inspire you to make small but lasting changes that build habits you can keep. After all, good food should be a source of joy, not a prescription!
Information you can trust
With so many opinions out there, it can be hard to know who to follow. At Oncolifestyle we do our best to provide you with evidence-based information that has been carefully researched with your health in mind.
Our sources
Where is this information coming from?
Our sources
Where is this information coming from?
- Baguley, B., Bolam, K., Wright, O. & Skinner, T. The Effect of Nutrition Therapy and Exercise on Cancer-Related Fatigue and Quality of Life in Men with Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review. Nutrients 9, 1003 (2017).
- Wilding, J. P. H. The importance of weight management in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Int. J. Clin. Pract. 68, 682–691 (2014).
- Akil, L. & Ahmad, H. A. Relationships between Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases in Four Southern States and Colorado. J. Health Care Poor Underserved 22, 61–72 (2011).
- Young, T., Peppard, P. E. & Taheri, S. Excess weight and sleep-disordered breathing. J. Appl. Physiol. 99, 1592–1599 (2005).
- Islami, F., Goding Sauer, A., Gapstur, S. M. & Jemal, A. Proportion of Cancer Cases Attributable to Excess Body Weight by US State, 2011-2015. JAMA Oncol. 5, 384 (2019).
- Castelló, A. et al. Mediterranean Dietary Pattern is Associated with Low Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer: MCC-Spain Study. J. Urol. 199, 430–437 (2018).
- Gregg, J. R. et al. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and grade group progression in localized prostate cancer: An active surveillance cohort. Cancer 127, 720–728 (2021).
- Martínez-González, M. A., Gea, A. & Ruiz-Canela, M. The Mediterranean Diet and Cardiovascular Health: A Critical Review. Circ. Res. 124, 779–798 (2019).
- Yang, M. et al. Dietary Patterns after Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in Relation to Disease-Specific and Total Mortality. Cancer Prev. Res. (Phila. Pa.) 8, 545–551 (2015).
