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Any sources for this? I'd like to learn more.

• errantspark 7y ago
  In a word? No. There have been a couple studies done that suggest vegetarian diets are modestly cancer protective (~10% lower incidence). There have also been some that link increased meat consumption with increased risk of cancer. It's absolutely not clear that eating meat causes cancer. Dietary habits change your cancer mortality risk and being a vegetarian probably correlates with something like a 1-4% decreased risk. I would be wildly surprised if there weren't animal protein inclusive diets that are good in other ways that surpass the cancer risk reduction of "being vegetarian".
  • r6754dw 7y ago
    Yep, for example salmon and other fatty fish is widely recognized to be highly healthy food from cardiovascular point of view, and definitely doesn't increase cancer risk. I don't think even red meat is necessarily so bad - rather it's the fact people in wealthy countries eat way too much of it compared to what humans have done most of our species history.
    • nradov 7y ago
      Some hunter-gatherer and pastoralist groups such as the Comanche and Maasai primarily ate red meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche#Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche#Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Diet
  • bluGill 7y ago
    Vegetarians are more likely than the general population to be non-smokers - an obvious cancer risk that many studies do not control for.
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  • nradov 7y ago
    Those were all observational studies anyway. Basically junk science that doesn't meet evidence-based medicine standards.