Table 3.

Lifestyle changes recommended by WHO [30]

• Prevent risk factors for coronary artery disease

• Keep lipid profile optimum

• LDL levels < 130-160 mg%

• HDL levels> 40 mg%

• BP < 140/90 mmHg

• Know your PSA levels – starting at age 50 years

• Maintain healthy body weight

• BMI <25

• Low fat, Low carbohydrate diet

• Replace saturated fat and cholesterol with unsaturated fats

• Increase dietary fibre

• Increase fruit/vegetable consumption contaning lycopene and carotenoids

• Encourage use of soy products

• Use of flaxseed oil, canola oil, soyabean oil

• Increase omega 3 fatty acid consumption, present in fish (except fried)

• Increase dietary Vit D, E and selenium

• Thirty minutes of physical activity every day

• Stop smoking, reduce alcohol