There's more evidence that vegetarians
are less likely the meat-eaters to develop cancer.
The study of more than 60,000 people
in the British Journal of Cancer suggests
they have a lower risk of getting cancers of the stomach,
bladder and blood.
Adam Brimelow reports.
The life-time risk of developing cancer
in the general population in the UK
is about one in three or 33%.
This study suggests among vegetarians
it's significantly lower, 29%.
There's already evidence that
eating a lot of red and processed meat
can raise the risk of stomach cancer.
But the reduced rate of blood cancers
among vegetarians including leukemia,
multiple myeloma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
was a surprise.
The authors say more research is needed
to back up their findings
and to try to explain these differences.