{"id":879,"date":"2009-07-01T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2009-07-06T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:54:02","slug":"vegetarians-avoid-more-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/vegetarians-avoid-more-cancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians &#8216;avoid more cancers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been known for centuries that a low\/non-meat diet is healthier for you, as well as better for the planet.  Here&#8217;s another scientific study backing up the health claims reported by Cancer Research UK: <a href=\"http:\/\/info.cancerresearchuk.org\/news\/archive\/pressreleases\/2009\/july\/Vegetarians-less-likely-cancer\">Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters<\/a> which reported the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/bjc\/journal\/v101\/n1\/full\/6605098a.html\">Cancer incidence in British vegetarians<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/bjc\/index.html\">British Journal of Cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a number of cancers, like stomach, bladder and multiple mylenoma, the risk is lowered by more than 10%, though vegetarianism is less helpful for bowel cancer.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8127215.stm\">Vegetarians &#8216;avoid more cancers&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Natural Health: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalproductsonline.co.uk\/home.asp?ItemID=4927&amp;rcid=70&amp;pcid=69&amp;cid=70\">Vegetarians 45% less likely to develop some cancers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0007128924?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=astraeanet-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0007128924\">The Bloodless Revolution  by Tristram Stuart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been known for centuries that a low\/non-meat diet is healthier for you, as well as better for the planet. Here&#8217;s another scientific study backing up the health claims reported by Cancer Research UK: Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters which reported the study Cancer incidence in British vegetarians from the British &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/vegetarians-avoid-more-cancers\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vegetarians &#8216;avoid more cancers&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-eb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}