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Diet, Nutrition and the Healing & Prevention of Cancer & Other Diseases (XXI)
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world
adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. Vegetarians Live LongerResults of 25-Ýear Vegetarians Study of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
(German Cancer Research Center), Press communiqué N° 12 According to a study carried out by the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center), vegetarians have a dramatically lowered mortality risk. 100 deaths to be statistically expected in the age group of study participants are matched by only 59 real deaths in vegetarians. Looking at male participants only, the positive effect - with only 52 actual deaths - is even more pronounced. C. 1900 vegetarians participate in the study carried out since 1978 under the direction of associate professor Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude. The scientists divided the participants into three different dietary groups. A small group - 60 participants - has declared to abstain not only from meat but also from other animal foodstuffs such as milk or eggs (vegans). Two thirds of study partipants do eat eggs and dairy products while avoiding meat (ovo-lacto vegetarians), and roughly one third state to occasionally consume small servings of meat or fish (moderate vegetarians). Comparing these three categories, occasional meat consumers seem to have opted for the healthiest diet, i.e. the observed lowered
mortality risk cannot be attributed to complete abstention from meat and fish. In addition to nutritional factors, the study also records other lifestyle elements such as smoking or physical activity: as expected, smoking increases mortality risk by an average 70 percent. Those participating who declare their physical activity to be medium to high can rejoice: compared to "exercise haters", their mortality risk is lowered by one third. The vegetarians study aims to elucidate how a vegetarian diet and attendant lifestyle affect mortality risk. To this effect, the Cancer
Research Center's epidemiologists record the causes and number of deaths among the participants at several year intervals. The collected data is subsequently compared to the values calculated for the
general population of corresponding age. Compare the confirming evidence in the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine: “A vegetarian diet helps prevent cancer”, On the Question Whether Eating
Meat Is Good Or Bad for Health, Meat and Colon Cancer Link and Cancer Facts - Nutrition and Prostate Health: Important note: anecdotal “vegetarian” colon cancer case illustrating the possibly major importance of avoiding nonorganic fruits and vegetables I recently (July 2006) heard of someone who developed serious colon cancer after living in Thailand for a number of years, where a
major part of his diet consisted of pesticide- and otherwise toxin-laden tropical fruit (and vegetables). This slim and previously radiantly healthy man had been a vegetarian for 34 years (beginning
age 20) and prior to his Thailand experience had mostly been living on organic food. Compare Cancer Causes: Pesticides & Cancer, Organic food and Colon Cancer Cure Testimonials.
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