AR-News: (UK) More Evidence Vegetarian Diet May Cut Cancer Risk

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Mon 16 February, 2004 20:22 

By Alison McCook 
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating a meat-free, vegetarian diet may reduce 
the risk of colorectal cancer, new research suggests. 
After following more than 10,000 people for 17 years, investigators found 
that vegetarians were 15 percent less likely to develop colorectal cancer than 
meat-eaters. 
This study adds to the "increasing scientific evidence" that a diet rich in 
fruit, vegetables and fiber and low in meat--especially red and processed 
meat--can prevent colorectal cancer, study author Dr. Miguel Sanjoaquin of the 
University of Oxford, UK, told Reuters Health. 
However, Sanjoaquin cautioned that only a small number of study participants 
-95--developed colorectal cancer, making it impossible to determine if fewer 
vegetarians developed cancer simply due to chance.





full story:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4368121&sec
tion=news 

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