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Public release date: 14 May 2010
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Obesity is a risk factor for benign prostate hyperplasia
There are sopme nutritional theories for benign prostate hyperplasia. The most common theory
is that you should avoid caffeine. Another theory suggests that animal fats aren't
good for the prostate. The true is
fat accumulation are bad for the whole body!
Prostate Cancer
There are theories that vitamins and selenium may prevent
prostate cancer,
which starts out with symptoms that are the same as BPH.
Obesity
Obesity as excess boby weight, is considered a risk factor for cancer and for BPH. These
authors considered weight loss to be a treatment for BPH.
A study aiming obesity, health related behaviors and the risk of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia concluded that
black race, Hispanic ethnicity and obesity, particularly abdominal obesity,
are associated with increased benign prostatic hyperplasia risk. Much more, weight loss
may be helpful for the treatment or prevention of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Experts think factors that potentially increase the risk of benign prostatic hyperplasia
and lower urinary tract symptoms include obesity and diabetes. Factors that
potentially decrease the risk include increased physical activity and
moderate alcohol consumption. Other candidate factors for which clear risk
patterns have not yet emerged are dyslipidemia, hypertension, smoking, diet
and environment.
Hypertension could be a risk factor because hypertension does bad things to
the body. I am not aware of anything good coming from hypertension. The same
is true of smoking.
Dyslipidemia in also implicated BPH. This means an abnormal lipid profile
in the blood. If the lipids are too high, this is a risk factor for
cardiovascular disease.
Conclusions
There are probably factors that are not yet known. There are many theories.
It seems that obesity is a risk factor for benign prostate hyperplasia as
well as a risk factor for diabetes, hypertension, cancer, etc.
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