Nutritionist says adding these seven every day foods to diet can lower cancer risk

A nutritionist has suggested nthat seven foods can help lower your risk of developing a potentially fatal type of cancer.

Lena Bakovic, an expert at Top Nutrition Coaching, has shared the foods she thinks can help give people the best chance of reducing their risk of getting prostate cancer.

Foods that have a high antioxidant content top Lena's list of recommendations to add to your daily diet, with berries, kale and broccoli singled out for their high antioxidant content.

But, it is one particular quality that antioxidants possess that makes them so beneficial to our health, 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."

Free radicals are a type of unstable molecule in the body that can in some circumstances build up in cells and cause damage to other molecules that can in turn lead to the development of cancer.

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Advice from the National Cancer Institute says: "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 pointed towards the importance of a low red and processed meat diet and a mostly plant-based diet as an important factor in limiting the chances of developing prostate cancer.

She also highlighted four other foods men should try and get their hands on to reduce the risk of developing 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).'