Vegetarians 'avoid more (but not all) cancers'

Subject: Vegetarians 'avoid more (but not all) cancers' Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:10 am

Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found.

The study involving 60,000 people found those who followed a vegetarian diet developed notably fewer cancers of the blood, bladder and stomach.

But the apparently protective effect of vegetarian did not seem to stretch to bowel cancer, a major killer.

The study is published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Researchers from universities in the UK and New Zealand followed 61,566 British men and women. They included meat-eaters, those who ate fish but not meat, and those who ate neither meat nor fish.

VEGETARIANS GOT NOTABLY FEWER OF THESE CANCERS:
Stomach
Bladder
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Multiple myeloma

Overall, their results suggested that while in the general population about 33 people in 100 will develop cancer during their lifetime, for those who do not eat meat that risk is reduced to about 29 in 100.

LNK

Vegetarians 'avoid more (but not all) cancers'

Vegetarians 'avoid more (but not all) cancers'

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