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I have acid reflux and cannot eat tomato products. Is there another food effective for preventing prostate cancer?

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In 2008, researchers from Duke, M.D. Anderson, UNC, U. Michigan, and NCI published their findings on the use of flaxseed supplementation as a nutritional preventive intervention for prostate cancer. ... According to this study, ground flaxseed is safe and associated with biological alterations that may be protective for prostate cancer.

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