More than 50 percent of men in their 50s and 70 percent or more of men in their 60s suffer from benign prostatic hypertrophy or BPH.

It's so common in the Western world that most doctors just assume it's just an inevitable consequence of aging. But let's look around the world. In China, a medical college in Beijing reported that there was not 80% of the population affected, but about 80 cases, period. 84 cases over a 15-year timespan. It used to be considered a rare occurrence in China, but the incidence of both BPH and prostate cancer started "rising quickly", and now, the incidence of prostate enlargement in China is similar to that in developed countries.

Why? Well, the researchers suggest it's for the same reason for their skyrocketing cancer rates — a shift from their more traditional plant-based diet to one with more animal fat and animal protein. So, BPH may be like heart disease — a natural occurrence not of aging, but of eating an unhealthy diet. It may only be standard to get an enlarged prostate and die of a heart attack for those eating the Standard American Diet.