You are what you eat: Low fat diet with fish oil slows growth of human prostate cancer cells, study suggests

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

A low-fat diet with fish oil supplements eaten for four to six weeks prior to prostate removal slowed down the growth of prostate cancer cells -- the number of rapidly dividing cells -- in human prostate cancer tissue compared to a traditional, high-fat Western diet, according to a new study.

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