Vegetarian Diet Cuts Cancer Risk by Up to 30%

0:00It's February 27, and this episode is brought to you by NordVPN, Fast, Reliable Online Privacy. Links in the episode description. Here's what's happening across the UK. A new study from University of Oxford shows that a vegetarian diet can cut the risk of five types of cancer by up to 30%. Researchers looked at pancreatic, breast, prostate, kidney, and multiple myeloma cancers. Finding vegetarians faced 21% less risk for. Pancreatic cancer, 9% for breast, 12% for prostate, 28% for kidney, and 31% for multiple myeloma. Compared to meat eaters, but the findings aren't all positive. Vegetarians had nearly doubled the risk of the most common esophageal cancer, possibly for missing key nutrients in animal foods. Vegan showed a higher risk of bowel cancer than meat eaters, though numbers were small and more study is needed there. The research pooled data from worldwide studies, mostly in the UK and US, tracking over 1.6 million meat eaters, plus tens of thousands of.

1:05Poultry eaters, pescatarians, vegetarians, and nearly 9,000 beacons. They checked 17 cancers total, adjusting for things like body mass index and recent eating habits via questionnaires. Lead researchers point to vegetarians eating more fruits, vegetables, and fiber, while skipping process meats as reasons for the benefits. Still, they know inconsistencies, like no drop in bowel cancer risk for vegetarians, and call for deeper dives into meat's role versus diet specifics. Overall, experts recommend basing meals on whole grains, pulses, fruits, and vegetables, while ditching process meats and cutting back on red meat, to help lower cancer odds across the board. To help lower cancer odds across the board, to help lower cancer odds across the board, to help lower cancer odds across the board.