Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Vegetarians Less Likely to Get Cancer

BBC News reported today a study that says "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 researchers said they found marked differences between meat-eaters and vegetarians in the propensity to cancers of the lymph and the blood, with vegetarians just over half as likely to develop these forms of the disease.
In the case of multiple myeloma, a relatively rare cancer of the bone marrow, vegetarians were 75% less likely to develop the disease than meat-eaters."

You can find the full article here.