post treatment nutrition?

bdubs60647,
Welcome to the club no one really want to be a part of. With that the guys and ladies on this site are very knowledgeable regarding all aspect of pca.
Here is what I do and have done since 10/2013.
First what I have eliminated; white refined sugar I use stevia for a sweetener in organic coffee and I use almond milk for coffee and cereal. I dont buy anything with high fructose corn syrup. I have heard and read somewhere that potatoes turn into a form of sugar, I do stay away but once in a while is ok for me. No processed meat aka luncheon meat and I stay away from red meat, I eat turkey and chicken and fish. I drink a blended up asparagus after breakfast ( I hear it might kill some cancer) another bullet, cant hurt. When you pee the smell is hateful, I understand that is toxins coming out. Only time I hit a fast food place is to use the bathroom. In the am eggs for protein and I make red whole grain quinoa (easy to make) with the eggs. Maybe organic soup with crackers for lunch. Bottom line everything in moderation.
I drank soda like a fool years ago and no more and no fruit juices loaded with sugar. Make organic tea hot in winter with ice in summer with a drop of honey.
Good luck with your treatment on 5/5. What treatment are you doing??
Tom

Smitsonian.com explains the smell, nothing to do with toxins leaving your body:

Asparagusic acid, as the name implies, is (to our knowledge) only found in asparagus. When our bodies digest the vegetable, they break down this chemical into a group of related sulfur-containing compounds with long, complicated names (including dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfone). As with many other substances that include sulfur—such as garlic, skunk spray and odorized natural gas—these sulfur-containing molecules convey a powerful, typically unpleasant scent.


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-asparagus-makes-your-urine-smell-49961252/#KCF0HBCWpctt7VSk.99

I believe that the majority of people who participate in these discussions will agree that a 'heart healthy' diet is best for most older men (and women).
Combined with appropriate exercise, of course.

bdubs60647 said...
I am not particularly good at sustaining a rigid diet and so am looking for a plan I can stay on for the rest of my life.

Everyone's on "a diet". Balance in all things.

For me, exercise and diet are intertwined. The better the exercise the better the diet. Exercise can make what was once a craving, no longer palatable. And what was once unpalatable a craving.

What Andrew said.

I may be in the minority here, but I don't think any diet or change in your diet is going to have a measurable effect on cancer. Contrary to the beliefs of some (even here), you cannot eat your way to health. Balance and moderation are about all you can do that will have an effect, and the effect will be in your general health. If there was a diet that would somehow control cancer, it would be known everywhere.

Thomasjohn - don't get me wrong. I am not saying that we can eat junk and still be at our best of health. I am saying that I do not believe that specific dietary changes can make a meaningful change in how our bodies react to cancer. I do agree, though, that a good, well-balance diet is one of our weapons against disease - any disease.

Exercise, too, is one of those things that can help our general state of health and help our bodies' ability to fend off all diseases. I, too, am a walker. I used to be a runner, but these last few years my knees just won't do it. I've been through some pretty serious cardiac surgery and issues, and walking is the first form of exercise they advise us to return to. It is flexible - you can do it almost anywhere. You can adjust its duration and intensity to suit your needs and abilities. I commend you for staying with it, as I have been for nearly 40 years.

Prostate cancer is much more common in the western world than in eg. Eastern Asia. East Asian people who move to the United States eventually get an increased risk of prostate cancer. This strongly suggests that environmental factors and lifestyles are important reasons for getting prostate cancer.

However when you have got cancer then the damages in the DNA and epigenetics in your cells are, unfortunately not reversibel, no matter what you eat or how much you exercise! That's the bitter truth.

Even though we can not influence our prostate cancer to any significant extent, life style changes are
not without importance. By far the most common cause of death is cardiovascular disease. To prevent them, the diet is of recognized importance and walking and exercising is as important as eating right.

Gemlin said...
Prostate cancer is much more common in the western world than in eg. Eastern Asia. East Asian people who move to the United States eventually get an increased risk of prostate cancer. This strongly suggests that environmental factors and lifestyles are important reasons for getting prostate cancer....

And genetics must play a part as well because I've read that blacks have a higher rate of PCa than Caucasians. Agent Orange exposure vets in Vietnam (I'm one of them) have a rate of PCa twice that of the general US population so there is a linkage to environmental factors.

I'm with Paxton, I don't think you can eat your way to remaining cancer-free or not getting cancer. Any dietary 'evidence' attesting to this is to my knowledge purely anecdotal. I am NOT discounting the importance of a healthy diet, I try to eat healthy but I have no unrealistic expectations.

I wonder what gave the Japanese such a high stomach cancer rate? But in almost all other cancers, they had far lower rates than us before WW2 but have caught and surpassed us in many since then. I suspect their traditional way of eating has changed a lot in these last 75 years:
ghrnet.org/index.php/JT/article/view/805/913

Somebody said...
In this article, the changes in lifestyle and in the mortality rates of lifestyle-related cancers of Japanese people are discussed from the viewpoint of descriptive epidemiology. In Japan, stomach cancer was formerly one of the most frequent causes of cancer death. Colorectal, pancreas, breast and prostate cancers were not frequent. Thus, the kinds of cancer that Japanese people contracted were different from those in western countries. However, after the Second World War, the crude mortality rate of colorectal cancer increased, and in 1992 it became higher than that in the USA. The age-adjusted mortality rates of colorectal, pancreas, breast and prostate cancers increased, and that of stomach cancer gradually decreased. That is, the kinds of cancer of Japanese people have been westernized. In Japan, during the 70 years after the Second World War, the lifestyle, especially eating habits, greatly changed. Before the war the Japanese people ate much plant food, but after the war, the percentage of the intake of animal protein and animal fat greatly increased due to increased consumption of meat and poultry. The changes in the age-adjusted mortality rates of colorectal, pancreas and prostate cancers after the war can be at least partially accounted for by the change in eating habits. In Japan, the smoking rate was the highest for both males and females in 1966, and thereafter it has been decreasing. The age-adjusted mortality rate of lung cancer increased until 1995, but has been decreasing since that year. Since there is an interval of about 30 years between them, the "latent period" of smoking for lung cancer seems to be about 30 years. The mean age of women's first marriage and that of the first delivery have both increased and may be factors contributing to the constant increase of the age-adjusted mortality of breast cancer...............................
There are virtually no other countries where such a drastic change in nutritional intake occurred during about a half century. People in Japan mainly consumed plant foods for thousands of years before the Second World War. However, after the war, eating habits of western countries rapidly entered the country, and Japanese people began to consume much more food of animal origin.
Key words: Cancer; Descriptive epidemiology; Japan; Lifestyle

© 2014 The Author. Published by ACT Group Ltd.

Nishi M. Lifestyle and Cancer after the Second World War in Japan. Journal of Tumor 2014; 2(8): 197-201 Available from: URL:http://www.ghrnet.org/index.php/JT/article/view/805

The tables and charts are very interesting. Crude prostate cancer death rate per 100,000 in 1950= 0.2,
2010= 17.4. But like us, they may be living longer, older age means is usually correlated with more PC, so age adjusted 1950=0.5, 2000= 8.6, still a whopping 17 fold increase. Cause? Diet and other lifestyle changes? Radiation poisoning? I don't know, but something to think about! ( meat and poultry intake has increased by a factor of 5 )

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