Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk

Jeffrey Bland Deanna Minich

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Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland and Dr. Deanna M. Minich, Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute

News of a study titled "Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial," published in July 2013, was been covered in the mainstream media leading to many online discussions and quite a bit of confusion.

In this video, Dr. Deanna Minich and Dr. Jeffrey Bland discuss what is known about this research by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and how the information should be put into context when considering the broad spectrum of information that is available about essential fatty acids.

Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk

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Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk

Study Abstract

Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial

Video References

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Additional References

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2. Marks LS, Kojima M, Demarzo A, Heber D, Bostwick DG, et al. Prostate cancer in native Japanese and Japanese-American men: effects of dietary differences on prostatic tissue. Urology. 2004;64(4):765-771.

3. Parks SY, Wilkens LR, Henning SM, Le Marchand L, Gao K, et al. Circulating fatty acids and prostate cancer risk in nested case-control study: the Multiethnic Cohort. Cancer Causes Control. 2009;20(2):211-223.

4. Maskarinec G, Noh JJ. The effect of migration on cancer incidence among Japanese in Hawaii. Ethn Dis. 2004 Summer;14(3):431-439.

Thanks to the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute for permission to post this article.

Originally published on the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute website, July 12, 2013. Used with permission.

About the Author

Jeffrey Bland

Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., F.A.C.N., F.A.C.B., is the founder and president of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. He has been an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field for over 30 years.

Bland served as chief science officer for Metagenics for the past 12 years and also served as their

Deanna Minich

Deanna Minich, Ph.D., F.A.C.N., C.N.S., is an internationally recognized, functional nutrition expert and author, who sees more to food than just calories, protein, fat, or carbohydrates. She is skilled and passionate about guiding people to make therapeutic lifestyle changes, including teaching them how food choices and the experience of eating