According to a study conducted in Boston’s Children Hospital, it appears that marinating lower cholesterol levels through low cholesterol diet and exercise, and the risk of having a prostate cancer, including the pace in which prostate cancer develops, are strongly connected.

Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor that usually begins its development in the outer side of the prostate. Of all men who are diagnosed of having any type of cancer, more than 25% have prostate cancer, which it the second most common type of cancer in the U.S, after skin cancer. 27,000 new men every year will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer studies, which examined 10 years of data, show that men who took lowering cholesterol medication (statin drugs), have reduced their risk of having advanced prostate cancer in more than 50%. These statin drugs like Lipitor, Mevacor, and Zocor did not seem to affect the risk of developing the early stages of the disease-the stage where the cancer is still curable, meaning the tumor has not spread beyond the prostate.

It appears that men who were costumed to eat plenty of foods high in cholesterol and saturated fat (a typical western diet) had 90% greater rates of having prostate cancer, than men who were on a low fat and low in cholesterol die, such as most Asian men.

A laboratory experiment with mice, which were injected with prostate cancer cells from human patients and were fed high cholesterol food had clearly shown the connection between a high cholesterol diet and the development of prostate cancer. The cells examined have multiplied and their outer membranes had large cholesterol deposits. Contrary to that, mice that were fed with low cholesterol diet had developed significantly less tumors than the other group and when injected with statin drugs to lower cholesterol the tumors begin to shrink dramatically.

The conclusion from this experiment was that lowering cholesterol measures might in fact reduce the chance of men to develop prostate cancer .