by DenverGuy » Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:28 pm
Two studies, two different results. This is from about 5 years ago. It's odd to me that they have such different results.
UK researchers found that vegetarians had a lower overall cancer rate than meat eaters, but contrary to suggestions from other studies, they found a higher rate of colorectal cancer among the vegetarians than among the meat eaters. For the study they examined EPIC data on 63,550 men and women aged 20 to 89 recruited throughout the UK during the 1990s.
The study was the work of researchers working on the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Oxford (EPIC-Oxford) and the findings were published in the online issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on 11 March.
However, for colorectal cancer, vegetarians showed a 39 per cent higher incidence rate compared with meat eaters.
And then this:
The Adventist Health Study 2 (AHS-2) is a large, prospective, North American cohort trial including 96 354 Seventh-Day Adventist men and women recruited between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2007.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
Vegetarian diets are associated with an overall lower incidence of colorectal cancers. Pescovegetarians in particular have a much lower risk compared with nonvegetarians. If such associations are causal, they may be important for primary prevention of colorectal cancers.