VEGETARIANS SHOW REDUCED RATE OF CANCER.

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Population studies, conducted over long periods of time, have shown that a vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of some cancers.

A commonly researched group, the Seventh Day Adventists, most of whom follow a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet for religious reasons, have as low as half the cancer rate of an equivalent population. One of two health studies conducted among Seventh Day Adventists at Loma Linda University in California, following 34,000 Adventists between 1976 and 1982, found significantly lower risk of developing cancers at most of the major cancer sites (stomach, lung, pancreas, rectum, bladder, and large intestine) in Adventists following a vegetarian diet.

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..............from, ALIVE, April, 2006.