{"id":9789,"date":"2009-07-12T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2009-07-10T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:03:15","slug":"vegetarians-have-slightly-smaller-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/vegetarians-have-slightly-smaller-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians Have Slightly Smaller Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s now more evidence of how a vegetarian<\/a> lifestyle can be beneficial. But it’s not altogether convincing either.\"basket<\/a><\/p>\n

In a British study of about 60,000 people, experts found that those who were vegetarian ran less of a risk of developing cancers of the blood, bladder, stomach, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and multiple myeloma than the meat-eaters<\/a> in the study.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this benefit didn’t include all forms of cancer. Bowel cancer was not impacted by the non-meat dietary habits.<\/p>\n

The results for the most part don’t suggest a huge difference between the two groups. In meat-eaters, about 33 percent will develop cancer at some point during their lifetime. But for vegetarians, the risk reduction is only to about 29 percent.<\/p>\n

The most striking difference only came in the case of a relatively rare type of cancer. The vegetarians were 75 percent less likely to develop multiple myeloma, a cancer in the plasma cells.<\/p>\n

In another case, fish-eaters and vegetarians were about a third less likely to develop stomach cancer as meat-eaters.<\/p>\n

There’s some cruel irony in the researchers’ findings. One of the more common types of cancer is bowel cancer. It just so happens that vegetarians in the study group had a slightly higher rate of cancers of the colon and the rectum than their meat-eating counterparts. It was a statistically insignificant number, but it’s still an interesting twist.<\/p>\n

“At the moment these findings are not strong enough to ask for particularly large changes in the diets of people following an average balanced diet<\/a>,” says Professor Tim Key, the lead author of the study.<\/p>\n

(via: BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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