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Meat Eaters More Prone To Cancer
New Cancer research has shown that vegetarians are less likely to incur bladder, blood, and stomach cancer compared to meat eaters. Over 12 years of studying 61,000 people, vegetarians were found to contract less cancer. The study compared meat/fish eaters to vegetarians.
Meat-eaters had two times the rates of cervical cancer than vegetarians. Though breast and prostate cancer rates were around the same, those who ate fish were found to have lesser risk for prostate cancer. Myeloma, which affects the bone marrow, was 75% less prominent in Vegetarians. Blood and lymph cancers like leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma were half as likely in vegetarians than meat-eaters.
Researchers suggested that meat eaters had higher cancer rates because of the viruses and mutation-causing compounds, like N-nitroso, found in meat that have the potential to damage DNA. The high temperatures that are used to cook meat could also produce harmful carcinogens.
Source: British Journal of Cancer. ‘Cancer incidence in British vegetarians’
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