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An Australian study has suggested that regular masturbation could cut prostate cancer risk. Researchers at the Cancer Council, Victoria said they believed frequent ejaculation cleared potentially carcinogenic chemicals from the prostate.
The council8217;s head of Cancer Epidemiology, Graham Giles, said the study of more than 2,000 men aged 40 to 69 found those who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.
8216;8216;It8217;s great news for men and certainly we don8217;t think ejaculation is going to cause any harm. You certainly won8217;t go blind,8217;8217; he said.
Giles said frequent ejaculation prevented semen from building up in the ducts in the prostate gland, where it could potentially become carcinogenic.
8216;8216;For seminal fluid to be made it has to be concentrated about 600 times,8217;8217; he said. 8216;8216;So semen is a very potent and strong brew of lots of chemicals which, because of their biological reactivity, could be carcinogenic if left to lie around.8217;8217;
The study found men who had masturbated frequently in their 20s were the least likely to develop prostate cancer.
a pizza a day keeps cancer away
A team of researchers from Italy where else? has found that eating pizza regularly may help prevent the disease.
In an article published in the International Journal of Cancer, researchers acknowledge that pizza is among the foods most closely associated with their country, and they cite evidence that their countrymen who eat pizza regularly, once a week or more, are less likely to develop cancers of the digestive tract.
When the researchers compared one group of people who had had cancer of the esophagus with one that had not, for example, they found that almost 58 percent of the first group were not pizza eaters, while about 37 per cent of the second group were.
Almost 600 people treated for cancer over nine years were asked about their diets. The results were compared with answers from almost 5,000 people who had not had cancer.
The benefit, if any, presumably has less to do with pizza than with some of its ingredients, said the lead researcher, Dr Silvano Gallus of the Institute of Pharmacological Research in Milan. Refined carbohydrates in pizza have actually been linked with some cancers. But the tomato sauce and olive oil have been found in some studies to reduce the risk of cancer.
Compiled from the New York Times News
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