Vegetable Consumption and Progression of Prostate Cancer

To the Editor In the Men ’s Eating and Living (MEAL) randomized clinical trial, men with early-stage prostate cancer were randomized to receive counseling to increase vegetable consumption to 7 servings per day or more vs the control group receiving written dietary information. We would caution that the generalizability o f the findings may be limited to men with the baseline dietary habits of those recruited to the study. At baseline, the mean total vegetable intake was 3.38 servings per day, an amount twice the mean intake of US men (1.5 servings per day). Hence, most men in the US are likely to have lower vegetabl e intake than the amounts consumed at baseline by participants in this trial.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research