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A recent British study found that eating less meat per week reduces the risk of cancer.
The researchers analyzed diet and cancer diagnostic data collected from more than 472,000 British adults aged 40 to 70 participating in the UK Biobank project, a biomedical database containing genetic and health information for 500,000 people. Science Alert website.
During the study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, participants reported how often they ate meat and fish, and the researchers calculated the incidence of cancers that developed over an average 11-year period using health records.
The data showed that of all participants, nearly 12 percent developed cancer during the study period, while those who ate meat five or fewer times a week had a 9 percent lower risk of colorectal cancer.
The risk of prostate cancer was 20 percent lower among men who ate only fish and 31 percent lower among men who ate a vegetarian diet compared to those who ate meat more than five times a week.
