Salad dressing ‘boosts prostate cancer chances’

A spoonful of salad dressing a day may improve a man’s survival chances after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, research has shown.

The finding is the most striking result from a study linking consumption of healthy vegetable fats with a reduced risk of deadly cancer and death.

The US authors stressed the research had revealed an association and not a causal link. But one tablespoon of oil-based dressing a day was associated with a 29 per cent lower risk of potentially lethal prostate cancer and a 13 per cent lower chance of dying from any cause.