Lifestyle modification men need to escape prostate cancer,medical experts suggest.

,,,,For women to avoid menopause pain.
By correspondent in Ilorin.
Medical experts have suggested lifestyle modification and improved diet intake as panacea to prostate cancer among men and pains of menopause among women.
They are medical consultants from the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH): Dr. Lola Owolabi, Dr. Ismail Husseni and a senior consultant surgeon from the General Hospital, Ilorin, Dr. Aremu Isiaq.
The medical doctors offered the suggestion while enlightening the people on how to manage menopause and prostate enlargement when they delivered health talks at the 2023 press week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara state NUJ,
Dr. Owolabi listed pains in women at the age of menopause to include weak bones, vaginal dryness that may cause painful sexual intercourse, mood changes, loss of air and depletion of hormones.
She added slow digestion, loss of voice, profuse sweating, pubic hair fall off and loss of elasticity of urinary bladder as well as uterus collapse.
Dr.Owolabi proffered healthy diets with less carbohydrates, light clothing, frequent cold rather than hot baths, water-based lubricants and hormone replacement therapy that must not be used beyond five years.
The gynaecology consultant dispelled the belief that irregular sex induces early menopause, saying that menopause is “an ageing process”among women.
“It is the absence of eggs that prompt normal and regular menopause, it has nothing to do with sex”, she stated.
She advised women to consume more of proteinous foods, less strenuous exercises and intake of Vitamin-E medications to reduce falling airs.
On prostate enlargement, Dr. Ismail Husseni, a Urology consultant described prostate among men as a normal phenomenon,pointing out that “as long as you are not castrated, you must have it”.
He, however, warned on the danger of its naivety, management and control and linked its spread and the danger it poises to irregular and unchecked diets.
“There is no major treatment to prostate cancer, it varies,” adding that its severity lies with the risk factors.
Husseni,who noted that lifestyle modification could forever check or reduce the menace, said: “lifestyle modification is the key to prostate cancer-free life among men.
“The risk factors, aside alcohol and smoking, is diet. Do away with diary foods like animal fats and red meats and go for white meats like rabbits, chicken and turkey,” he advised.
He also advised men to engage in regular exercises and screening, especially for men above 40 years.
“Avoid misinformation, prostrate cancer is not contagious,” he declared.
The consultant surgeon from the General Hospital, Ilorin, Dr. Aremu Isiaq, moderated the enlightenment discussion.
Meanwhile, the Press Week celebrations continues on Tuesday with novelty table tennis competition among the NUJ chapel at the NUJ state secretariat on Offa road, Ilorin.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.