Prostate Care Diet for Today [Day 2]
Hello Steemitsonians, today, I continue on this blog looking at food and diets that can help improve significantly, prostate health. Like I said yesterday, this is not only for men, it is also for women who want to do more to help their spouses live in good health. I have been reading quite a bit on this, particularly the book "Healthy Eating: The Prostate Care Cookbook" and my findings will be posted on this blog.
The prostate is that part of every man that needs proper monitoring to prevent the development of prostate cancer. The lower the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) level in the blood, the better for the health of the prostate. Although there isn't a specific normal or abnormal level of PSA in the blood, but most doctors have in the past considered PSA levels of 4.0 ng/mL and lower as being normal. Proper care is needed to maintain these levels.
Diet for Today
Blueberries (Image credit: Medical News Today)
Blueberry Smoothie
This is another easy to prepare smoothie, so you really do not have any excuse for not doing this.
Ingredients
- 150g of blueberries
- 2 x 125ml raspberry-flavored soya yogurts
- soya or rice milk to dilute
Preparation
Step 1
Put the blueberries and the raspberry-flavored soya yogurt in a blender and blend until very smooth
Step 2
Blend in enough milk to reach the desired consistency
Your smoothie is ready!
Pour into a clean glass cup and enjoy!
Blueberry Smoothie (Image credit: Recipes hub)
Benefits:
You can see that this smoothie is easy to prepare. Blueberry smoothie makes a very refreshing start to the day and one of its greatest benefits is its ability to help boost concentration and improve memory .
Blueberries are a rich source of proanthocyanidin compounds which can significantly slow down the growth of prostate cancer cells.
In case you missed the first post yesterday, you can read the article here:
https://steemit.com/health/@delphia16/prostate-care-diet-for-today-1
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Do you have any evidence that blueberries are beneficial to prostate health?
The smoothie should be tasty anyway :-)
Hello @mcsvi, thanks for your comments. I do quite a bit of research on these posts before putting them out. Blueberries are a rich source of proanthocyanidin compounds and research has shown that proanthocyanidin compounds significantly slow down the growth of prostate cancer cells. You can do a bit of research as well to confirm that. Thanks once again for your comments.
"Although evidence is limited, a possible role of total flavonoids and proanthocyanidins in prostate cancer tumor progression deserves further study"Source
Doesn't seem really solid, but I think it's really hard to figure out causal relationships in general.
Keep posting -thx.
Thanks for your research. You can have a look at this..
" Many experiments have shown that proanthocyanidins have antitumor activity both in vivo and in vitro...." " Furthermore, when proanthocyanidin-induced autophagy is inhibited, apoptosis increases significantly and tumor cells undergo cell death. Therefore, as an active ingredient of natural products with low toxicity, proanthocyanidins can be used together with autophagy inhibitors to enhance cytotoxicity." source.
This is a more recent publication (2016) from the same website you made reference to, testing the efficacy of proanthocyanidins on cancer cells, with experiment focusing on gastric cancer cells. These results are more encouraging for cancer treatments.
Thanks though for the comments. Really appreciated.
Great informative post. Thanks for caring about people's health and providing suggestions and tips. Luckily, blueberries are one of my favorite fruits. And who doesn't love smoothies? Keep up the good work. Upvoted and followed. Feel free to check my page for music, short stories, poetry and boxing blogs
Thanks for your comments and upvote @verbal-d, I'm glad you find it quite informative.
You're very welcome.