A case-control study of nearly 2,000 men from North Carolina and Louisiana found that heaping the plate with vegetables and fruits may help lower the likelihood of aggressive prostate cancer. Approximately half the men were African American and half were European American. These men, newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, filled out questionnaires about their usual diets. The men whose diets were richest in flavonoids were 25 percent less likely to have an aggressive tumor compared to those eating the fewest flavonoid-rich foods. Flavonoids are plant compounds that are especially plentiful in foods such as tea, onions, citrus fruit, green leafy vegetables, strawberries and grapes. Dark chocolate is also rich in flavonoid compounds, although it was not a focus of the study.
[11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, Oct. 17, 2012]
