{"id":4135,"date":"2026-02-27T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/vegetarian-diet-could-slash-risk-of-five-cancers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:44","slug":"vegetarian-diet-could-slash-risk-of-five-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/vegetarian-diet-could-slash-risk-of-five-cancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian diet could slash risk of five cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-27 14:27:42<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Going on a vegetarian diet may cut an individual&#8217;s cancer risk.<BR><br \/>\nA major study led by researchers at University of Oxford has found that vegetarians could reduce their risk of five different cancers by as much as 30 per cent.<BR><br \/>\nThe research, published in the British Journal of Cancer, analysed data from a whopping 1.64 million meat eaters (no red meat), alongside 63,147 vegetarians, 57,016 poultry eaters, 42,910 pescatarians, and 8,849 vegans.<BR><br \/>\nVegetarians were found to have a 21 per cent lower risk of pancreatic cancer and a 9 per cent lower risk of breast cancer compared to meat eaters. <BR><br \/>\nThey also had a 12 per cent reduced risk of prostate cancer, a 28 per cent lower risk of kidney cancer and a striking 31 per cent lower risk of multiple myeloma \u2013 a type of blood cancer.<BR><br \/>\nThe study&#8217;s lead researcher Aurora Perez Cornago, from Oxford Population Health, said: &#8220;&#8221;Vegetarians typically consume more fruit, vegetables and fibre than meat eaters and no processed meat, which may contribute to lower risks of some cancers.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nShe added: &#8220;The higher risk of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma in vegetarians and bowel cancer in vegans may relate to lower intakes of certain nutrients more abundant in animal foods.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Additional research is needed to understand what is driving the differences in cancer risk found in our study.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHowever, vegetarians were found to have nearly double the risk of the most common type of oesophageal cancer compared to meat eaters. <BR><br \/>\nMeanwhile, vegans showed a higher risk of bowel cancer \u2013 though researchers stressed only 93 cases were recorded in the vegan group, meaning more research is needed.<BR><br \/>\nExperts said the differences in risk were \u201cnot very big\u201d, and it remains unclear whether meat itself raises cancer risk or if something in vegetarian diets offers protection.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-27 14:27:42 Going on a vegetarian diet may cut an individual&#8217;s cancer risk. A major study led by researchers at University of Oxford has found that vegetarians could reduce their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}