• Stop smoking, or even better, never start.
• Balance food intake with exercise. Obesity must be avoided at all costs.
• Choose to eat unrefined starch, such as brown rice and wholewheat bread.
• Reduce sugar intake.
• Reduce salt intake. We eat approximately ten times the quantity of salt that we need.
• Reduce the intake of animal fats, whether in the form of meat or dairy products.
• Eat more beans.
• Increase folic acid intake. This is found in spinach, among other things.
• Increase omega-3 fatty acid intake. Use canola oil instead of sunflower oil.
• Eat lots of fruit and vegetables.
• Eat more tomatoes. Among their many health benefits, tomatoes are also very good protection against prostate cancer. (While researchers are divided on the cancer-fighting properties of tomatoes, everyone agrees that they are nutritious, so you can't go wrong here.)
• Use olive oil on salads – the cold-pressed virgin olive oil.
• A glass of good red wine a day appears to have beneficial effects.
• Drink tea.
• Avoid too much sun, or even better, don’t go into the sun unless adequately protected.
• If any symptom that suggests cancer persists for more than two weeks, consult a GP.

(Susan Erasmus, Health24, updated August 2007)

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