Healthy Prostate Tips

Nowadays prostate disorders growth is becoming a more and more serious problem for men's health worldwide. Small prostate dysfunctions can cause more dangerous diseases and even prostate cancer. By the official statistics data, prostate diseases cases quantity has almost doubled for the last 20 years.

1. Minimize alcohol consumption - alcohol drinks neutralize both zinc and vitamin B6 (which works for zinc absorption).

2. Drink low fat level milk and eat lean meat dishes - some researchers believe that saturated fats from dairy products and meats are factors increasing the risk of prostate cancer development.

3. Eat more soy - clinical studies demonstrate that the increasing estrogen-to-testosterone ratio as a result of aging is one of the key factors that impacts badly on the size of prostate gland. At least 2 ounces of soy per day will decrease estrogen levels in your organism and reestablish optimal balance of the estrogen-to testosterone ratio that is getting imbalanced at men age of 60 and older. Rich of soy foods are: soy flour or powder, miso, tempeh, roasted soy nuts and tofu (soybean curd).

4. Improve your circulation - use Kegel exercise workouts to improve a better blood flow for your prostate and urogenital organs. To perform the Kegel workout pull up all your muscles around scrotum and anus, keep them strained and then release. 10 exercises by 5-6 workouts per day will maximize the blood flow to your prostate gland tissue.

5. Follow healthy diet. Eat more fruits, berries and vegetables to provide your body with needed natural antioxidants and vitamins. Exclude from your diet saturated fats, sugars and cooked foods. Meals containing high levels of fat like meats or dairy products can raise testosterone levels that can cause enlargement of prostate gland and abnormal cells growth. Consume different vegetables, especially like cabbage, brussels sprouts, sauerkraut, broccoli and coleslaw. Consuming just 3 servings of vegetables per day can lower the prostate cancer risk by up to 45%!

6. Increase Selenium consumption. Selenium is highly needed to keep your prostate healthy. The foods containing good levels of Selenium are: eggs, cashews, brazil nuts, garlic, kelp, wheat germ, tuna, herring and other shellfish and seafood, cashews, onions and mushrooms, sesame and sunflower seeds, beef liver and kidney.

7. Have two or more meals with oily fish weekly, such as wild salmon (do not consume farmed salmon which is being fed with artificial feed).

8. Increase Zinc intake. Zinc consumption in amount of 15 mg per day helps for proper and healthy prostate functionality. Excellent Zinc sources are pumpkin seed in shell, oysters, nuts and beans.

9. Two portions of tomato sauce per week reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Cooked tomatoes break down their cell walls, allowing your organism to absorb antioxidant lycopene from tomatoes, which is very important for your body.

10. Use nutritional supplementation. Consume a quality multivitamin supplement containing the next microelements and vitamins to keep your prostate healthy: Vitamin A (25,000 IU), Lycopene (10 mg), and Vitamin E (1,200 IU).

11. Respect healthy lifestyle. Provide your body with sufficient amount of rest and regular physical activities. Regular exercising has been proven to ensure improvement of immune and digestive systems, body circulation and cleansing of body toxins and waste. These activities also act for prevention of obesity, as an obesity is considered as one of bad factors increasing risk of cancer and other diseases. Systematic exercising can also reduce the risk of prostate gland getting enlarged.

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Cheap Health Meals: Polenta Cake

As you are probably aware, if you have read a number of my articles on cheap healthy meals, I like to purchase organically grown dried food in bulk. This not only reduces the product cost, it saves on the expense of refrigeration and the fuel cost in frequent trips to the supermarket.

Another major criteria to consider in preparing cheap healthy meals is convenience. We all know how much more expensive and unhealthy fast foods are. Yet there are often times in our busy days that if we don't have something on hand, that is quick and easy to prepare, we get sucked into buying it.

Not that polenta cake itself is all that quick to prepare but it freezes well and you want to make a big batch when you do. Dried corn is easily stored and if it is in an airtight container in a cool spot it keeps forever.

Polenta cake is a very popular Italian dish. Now that I have made some for myself I can see why it is so favored. It can be prepared in a variety of ways for breakfast, a dinner side or a meal in itself. One of the ways I keep costs down is to grow as many of my vegetables as I can.

As I wrote in another article on cheap healthy meals I preserve many of these by fermenting them. Sauerkraut has become a favorite. Then, in the winter time, rather than purchasing expensive fresh vegetables I like to rehydrate dried veggies and legumes.

Although I make my polenta cake with dried corn, which is technically considered a grain, the nutrients are just about the same as fresh corn, which is considered a vegetable. Hence the primary differences are only semantical.

The added bonus for me is that you don't know what you are getting in the supermarkets these days. There is so much GMO corn produced now, which many of the growers wouldn't eat themselves, that you never know what you are buying, especially out of season.

Polenta cake is very similar to hominy grits, made famous in the southern states. It not only has a tradition as a staple there, but during leaner years early last century, it constituted the major source of protein in many diets.

The problem was, though, this led to widespread incidence of pellagra, a disease with horrific symptoms. These include sore skin and mouth, irritability, depression, hallucinations and even death. This is caused by a deficiency in vitamin B3, aka niacin.

Corn is very nutritious and has sufficient B3 as well as 10 times as much vitamin A as other grains. The problem is that the niacin in corn is not readily bio-available. Corn needs to be nixtamalized by soaking in an alkaline solution to make the niacin bio-available.

Indigenous peoples south of the US border following their traditions have subsisted on corn for centuries without suffering from pellagra. They soak the corn in lime-water often made with the ashes from burned wood.

If corn does not constitute a significant part of your diet and you feel that you have other good sources of niacin this is not absolutely necessary. As I like to get as many nutrients as possible from my meals I soak my corn. It helps that I heat with a wood stove and is pretty simple to do.

Otherwise, you can just buy some lime-water and add that to water to soak the corn all day or overnight depending on your schedule. If you are using dried whole kernels you need a mill that is able to handle corn.

That is one of the reasons that I purchased a Junior Wonder hand mill. It also allows me to mill my whole grains in a range anywhere from pastry flour to cracked wheat. I consume a lot of whole grains so I often get a good workout preparing them. This does wonders for my prowess in kayaking!

After I hand mill my corn I soak it in lime-water, which I make with ashes from my wood stove. I just soak them after skimming the floating unburned portion and let the ash settle for a few days, then decant the clear water. It is already sterile from having been burned.

Corn also contains phytic acids, which can bind with important minerals including calcium, magnesium, zinc and iron and carry them out of our bodies. On top of this it does not have any significant amount of phytase, the enzyme necessary to neutralize phytic acid.

This is easy to deal with by just adding rye flour rich in phytase, about 10% of the volume of cornmeal, to the soaking solution as well as whey at a Tbsp per cup of flour. This will neutralize a good portion of the phytic acid.

I like to make my polenta cake with chicken stock but you can use water. The cornmeal needs to be brought to a boil and then simmered for about 20 to 30 minutes until it is so thick it starts to come away from the sides of the pot.

I like to add Parmesan, chopped onion and fresh herbs before pouring it into a pyrex dish so that it is about 1/2 inch thick. Then I bake it at 300 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours. There is an endless variety of options available online. This provides me with one more attractive way to prepare cheap healthy meals.