Vegetarian diet can slash risk of five cancers by up to 30%, study finds
Study of 1.8 million people finds vegetarian diets reduce risk of five cancers by up to 30%, while vegans have higher bowel cancer risk possibly linked to lower calcium intake.
- On Feb 27, University of Oxford researchers published in the British Journal of Cancer pooled data from over 1.8 million people showing vegetarian diets linked to reductions in five cancers by 30%.
- Researchers suspect reduced red and processed meat and meat-specific compounds explain lower risks, but observational cohorts recruited at least 10 years ago limit causation vs association claims.
- Sample breakdown shows vegetarians had 21% lower pancreatic cancer and 9% lower breast cancer risk, based on 1,645,555 meat eaters, 57,016 poultry-eaters, and 63,147 vegetarians.
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A new analysis suggests the benefits of vegetarian diet in five cancers. Two types of tumours occur more frequently in plant nutrition. Overall, the results confirm once again that a large amount of red meat is harmful.
Popular diet linked to 30% lower risk of five cancers in ‘high-quality’ study
Following a vegetarian diet could lower the likelihood of developing five different types of cancer by as much as 30 per cent, according to groundbreaking research from the University of Oxford.The findings, published in the British Journal of Cancer, represent the most extensive investigation of its kind to date.They show that individuals who abstain from meat consumption face reduced risks of pancreatic, breast, kidney and prostate cancers, al…
But there are some cancers that are more common with a plant-based diet.
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