LESS CANCER AMONG VEGETARIANS.
long and systematic research in the UK confirms the estimates: who avoids the meat has 12% less chance of becoming ill, 45% for leukemia. LONDON - It 's a popular cliche: eat more fruits and vegetables is good for health. Now a major study reveals that not only what is true, but who does a vegetarian diet is less likely to get cancer than those who make a diet of meat. It is not the first time that such a statement comes from the international scientific community: the novelty, however, is that there had never been a study so broad and sustained on the issue. The results are impressive: vegetarians have 45 percent less likely to get cancer of the blood and a 12 per cent less of getting any type of cancer compared to those who make a carnivorous diet.
Published in British Journal of Cancer and resumed today, with great relief by the British national press, the study followed the health status of 61 000 persons over 12 years. "Previous research had indicated that the meat may increase the risk of bowel cancer, so our results have appeared plausible from this point of view," says the Guardian newspaper in London, Dr. Naomi Allen, a researcher at the Cancer Research at Oxford University and co-author of the report. "But we do not know why the cancer of the blood has a lower incidence in vegetarians." The difference, a 45 percent chance of getting less, it is huge, and covers both the leukemia and other types of blood cancer. Not only that, but who eats vegetables, fruits and fish, avoiding meat, also 12 percent lower risk of getting any other type of cancer, says research.
"These data are significant," says Dr. Allen, "although it should be taken with a little 'cautious because this is the first comprehensive study of its kind in this area. We need to make other and learn more. For example, we discover what aspect of a diet of vegetables, fruit and fish protects against cancer. And we need to determine how much positive influence on a vegetarian diet, as well as what affects one of meat. "The study is part of a long-term international project called" European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition ", which will go on, at Oxford and other centers of cancer research.
Other studies have already shown that eating meat anyway, or at least eat too much, it can be harmful. not only for the health of humans, to begin with, but also for that of the planet: 'Last year a report by the UN Commission on Climate Change Climate urged to give up meat at least once a week since the production of meat, or herds of cattle, produces only one fifth of emissions of harmful gases. A report by the World Cancer Research Fund, dua nni ago, has recommended not to eat over 300 grams of meat per week because of the relationship between a highly carnivorous diet and bowel cancer. And in 2005 a study funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, found that eating two servings of meat a day, the equivalent of a sandwich with bacon and a steak, increases of 35 percent the risk of bowel cancer.
Source: The Repubblica.it, Enrico Franceschini (July 1, 2009).
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