“Some of the best data we have is that obesity increases the risk of not just getting prostate cancer but actually dying from prostate cancer,” explains Dr. Stephen Freedland, a urologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. “Obese men are 35 percent more likely to die from prostate cancer.”
The risk is significant and that’s why Dr. Freedland counsels his patients on small, everyday changes they can make in their diet which can lead to weight loss, “I’ve studied this area for a while, I’ve talked to a lot of dieticians, and amazingly there are just two things, I can get the dietitians to agree on: trans-fats are bad and simple sugars are not good.”
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Dr. Stephen Freedland is Director of the Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle at Cedars-Sinai and a faculty physician in the Division of Urology at the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery. Read More
“Some of the best data we have is that obesity increases the risk of not just getting prostate cancer but actually dying from prostate cancer,” explains Dr. Stephen Freedland, a urologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. “Obese men are 35 percent more likely to die from prostate cancer.”
The risk is significant and that’s why Dr. Freedland counsels his patients on small, everyday changes they can make in their diet which can lead to weight loss, “I’ve studied this area for a while, I’ve talked to a lot of dieticians, and amazingly there are just two things, I can get the dietitians to agree on: trans-fats are bad and simple sugars are not good.”
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