Study: Cutting Carbs Slows Prostate Cancer

No, the study did not involve humans. But the prostate cancer-afflicted mice whose carbohydrate intake was restricted by researchers at Duke University's Prostate Center lived 50 percent longer than their carbohydrate happy counterparts. Now researchers just have to figure out why.
A DukeHealth.org press release reports that researchers fed mice who had been injected with prostate cancer tumors one of three diets: a very high fat/ no carbohydrate diet; a
low-fat/ high carbohydrate diet; and a high fat/ moderate-carbohydrate
diet, similar to the "Western" diet most Americans eat. The researchers found that the mice fed a no-carbohydrate diet had a 40 to 50
percent prolonged survival over the other mice. And for those humans who are reading this, Duke reports that the researchers plan to begin recruiting patients at two sites — Duke
and the University of California, Los Angeles — for a clinical trial
to determine if restricting carbohydrate intake in patients with
prostate cancer can similarly slow tumor growth. The trial should begin
within a few weeks.
Read more about carbo-cuts and prostate cancer from DukeHealth.org.