'I'm a nutritionist and adding these seven foods to your diet can reduce risk of cancer'

A nutritionist has named the seven foods that you should add to your diet to lower the risk of developing a potentially deadly type of cancer.

Lena Bakovic, an expert at Top Nutrition Coaching has recommended eating seven simple foods including, berries, kale and broccoli to reduce your risk of prostate cancer.

It is one common component of all the foods that sets them apart, their high antioxidant content, reports Surrey Live.

While foods with antioxidants are usually beneficial in their own right, thanks to their high dose of nutrients, they have another particularly powerful use, as Lena explains: "Antioxidants, which are primarily present in brightly coloured fruits and vegetables, work to scavenge cancer-producing free radicals from the body, thus in turn decreasing the free radical damage."

READ MORE: Doctor says cut down on coffee in winter to protect your bladder

READ MORE: Fitness coach got fit by walking specific number of steps a day – not cutting favourite foods

Free radicals are defined as unstable molecules in our bodies that can, in certain circumstances build up in cells and damage other molecules which can potentially lead to cancer developing.

According to the National Cancer Institute: "The damage to cells caused by free radicals, especially the damage to DNA, may play a role in the development of cancer and other health conditions."

Lena also highlighted the importance of having a plant-based diet over one involving red and processed meat to improve your chances of avoiding the condition.

She also said men should try to include four other foods in their diet, as she emphasised their role in reducing the risk of the getting the condition: "Healthy, anti-inflammatory fats found in foods such as avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil, may also be of particular benefit in prostate cancer risk reduction.”

According to the NHS website, symptoms of prostate cancer can include: "Needing to pee more frequently, often during the night, needing to rush to the toilet, difficulty in starting to pee (hesitancy), straining or taking a long time while peeing, weak flow, feeling that your bladder has not emptied fully and blood in urine or blood in semen."

They also say that symptoms of the condition are usually unnoticeable until the prostate is 'large enough to affect the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the penis (urethra).'