"Prostate cancer survivors who eat a typical American diet loaded with red meat cheese and white bread are far more likely to see their cancer come back and kill them and theyre more likely to die sooner of any disease than patients who eat a healthier diet researchers reported Monday. Its yet another piece of evidence showing that the socalled Western diet can worsen the risks http for cancer http as well as all sorts of other diseases from heart disease  http Alzheimers. Many studies have shown it doesnt take a whole lot of adjustment to greatly lower the risks. Socalled Mediterraneanstyle diets with plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit olive oil instead of saturated fat whole grains and more fish than meat ward off  httpvitals.nbcnews.com_newstastydietcutsheartdiseasestudyfindslitethese same diseases. Men diagnosed with nonmetastatic prostate cancer whose diet was more Westernized ...were more likely to die of prostate cancer. Our results suggest that the same dietary recommendations that are made to the general population primarily for the prevention of cardiovascular disease may also decrease the risk of dying from prostate cancer among men initially diagnosed with nonmetastatic disease cancer that has not spread said Dr. Jorge Chavarro of Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led the study. Chavarro and colleagues studied  men who had prostate cancer that hadnt spread. They were all taking part in the Physicians Health Study a giant ongoing research project that follows thousands of male doctors over their lives. The men answered questions about their diets about five years after getting a diagnosis and were watched for about  years. We found that men diagnosed with nonmetastatic prostate cancer whose diet was more Westernized i.e. contained processed meats refined grains potatoes and highfat dairy were more likely to die of prostate cancer Chavarro said. They were more than . times as likely to die of their prostate cancer than patients eating the healthiest diet and they were more than one and a half times as likely to have died of anything over the  years Chavarros team reports in the journal Cancer Prevention Research. There are very little data regarding how diet after diagnosis may impact disease prognosis. Its really not a shocking discovery Chavarro says.  Because cardiovascular disease is one of the top causes of death among prostate cancer survivors our findings regarding allcause mortality are what we anticipated and closely align with the current knowledge of the role of diet on cardiovascular disease he said in a statement. Our findings with Western diet and prostate cancerspecific mortality however were surprising in part because there are very little data regarding how diet after diagnosis may impact disease prognosis. The findings could be important for many men. Prostate cancer  http very common showing up in  U.S. men every year. It kills about  a year."