Tag: obesity

Is there a link between being overweight and prostate cancer death? Recent studies show that excess body fat, particularly around the abdomen, may significantly increase the risk of fatal prostate cancer. Learn how maintaining a healthy weight could make a difference in your prostate cancer prognosis. keep reading

Is there a best diet for everyone on the planet? No, there isn’t. Many factors influence what we put in our mouths, including our culture, customs, and available ingredients. However, if you are overweight or obese, there may well be a universal method for getting to a healthier weight regardless of your nutritional combinations: intermittent fasting (IF). keep reading

John Gray’s bestseller Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus confirmed for many readers what they suspected all along. His book explains how men and women have innately distinct natures. Guess what? Mother Goose beat him to the punch by nearly four centuries! In a nursery rhyme she instructs us that males and females keep reading

What could be better than searching for buried treasure for many years, then finally discovering it? The answer might be, finding buried treasure when you didn’t even know you were looking for it! In the world of prostate cancer, an unexpected treasure was discovered when a diabetes drug, metformin, appeared... keep reading

The desert habitats of Africa are home to ostriches, which are said to bury their heads in the ground when frightened. Well, that’s a lot of hooey (though they use their beaks to dig nests in the sand, and to turn the eggs once laid—giving the illusion from a distance of buried heads). This illusion keep reading

A new study out of MD Anderson Cancer Center and University of Texas Medical Branch tells a cautionary tale: “men with prostate cancer are at risk for competing morbidity and mortality from age-related cardiometabolic diseases.”[i] This sounds pretty scary. Why would having prostate cancer (PCa) be connected with higher risk of illness and death from keep reading

What’s not to love about fun facts? Most of the time they’re composed of trivia, but unlike the supposedly memorable dates you learned in high school history, fun facts tend to stick. For instance, here’s one about food: a single fast-food burger may have meat from 100 different cows! You might never have reason to keep reading

Fat cells are essentially containers that store energy. However, they also play an important health role by signaling bioactive factors that influence the endocrine and immune systems, and impact the behavior of other kinds of cells. Here is a simplified explanation of how an overabundance of fat can turn insignificant prostate cancer into a life-threatening disease... keep reading

You’ve probably heard that obesity is considered a U.S. epidemic, from kids through adolescents and adults. It is a major public health concern for middle-aged and older men, who are also at increased risk for prostate cancer (PCa) which is an aging-related disease. According to one report... keep reading

Fat is fat, right? Well, not exactly. All fat is not alike. It may surprise you to learn that there are two different kinds of fat, and one of them may actually increase the risk of prostate cancer... keep reading