"Curt Nelson" > wrote in message
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> VEG DIET CUTS COLON CANCER RISK
>
> NEW YORK - Eating a meat-free, vegetarian diet may reduce the risk of
> colorectal cancer, new research suggests. After following more than 10,000
> people for 17 years, investigators found that vegetarians were 15 percent
> less likely to develop colorectal cancer than meat-eaters.
>
> This study adds to the "increasing scientific evidence" that a diet rich
in
> fruit, vegetables and fiber and low in meat--especially red and processed
> meat--can prevent colorectal cancer, study author Dr. Miguel Sanjoaquin of
> the University of Oxford, UK, told Reuters Health.
>
> However, Sanjoaquin cautioned that only a small number of study
> participants--95--developed colorectal cancer, making it impossible to
> determine if fewer vegetarians developed cancer simply due to chance.
> However, Sanjoaquin noted that a previous study featuring more cases of
> colorectal cancer confirmed these findings, and he added that it makes
> sense that eating vegetarian could cut cancer risk. The fat in red meat
> increases the excretion of substances called bile acids, he explained,
> which in turn produce other substances that encourage tumor growth.
>
> Furthermore, meat contains natural compounds and substances formed
> during processing and high-temperature cooking that can disrupt the
> normal balance of cell growth in the colon, potentially triggering the
> cancer, Sanjoaquin noted. Alternatively, substances in fruits and
> vegetables--staples of the vegetarian diet--"may inhibit these adverse
> effects," he added.
>
> Full story:
> www.nlm.nih.gov

So I won't live quite as long-fine. BUT I'll enjoy it more.
Who wants to suffer their whole lives just to live a bit longer, eh?