Rare cancer in vegetarians

Vegetarians and fish-consuming vegetarian (fish eaters) suffer less from cancer than meat eaters. This is the result came the British Oxford Vegetarian Study and the EPIC-Oxford Study, researchers have compared to the more than 30,000 meat eaters, with 8,500 fish eaters and vegetarians around 20,000.

In a questionnaire, the participants gave include information about their diet, exercise and smoking habits and their alcohol consumption. About two-thirds of the vegetarians were at the beginning of the study for at least five years of this diet. They were on average about nine years younger than the meat eaters. After twelve years came to 3,350 cancer cases, of which only 829 vegetarians and 317 for fish eaters.

Vegetarians and fish eaters had a significantly lower risk of developing cancer as a whole. The researchers looked at individual cancers were protected non-meat eaters better against cancer of the stomach, ovarian, and bladder and in front of leukemia and cancer of the lymphatic tissues.

In contrast to the Oxford Vegetarian Study found the EPIC-Oxford Study at increased risk of colon cancer for vegetarians. The researchers limit but that the cancer rate among people tested in total was very small and was below the UK average. Vegetarians were more likely than not against colon cancer in the total UK population. The researchers therefore assume that vegetarians have the study results, despite no increased risk for colon cancer. Over other types of cancer, especially lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue, they are much better protected than meat eaters