{"id":1529,"date":"2015-10-28T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T01:18:42","slug":"veg-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/10\/veg-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Going veg can&#8217;t prevent cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/10\/27\/veg-cancer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2015\/10\/meat.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week there was a bit of hysteria due to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarc.fr\/en\/media-centre\/pr\/2015\/pdfs\/pr240_E.pdf\">statement<\/a> by the IARC indicating that red and processed meats cause cancer, based on a review of nearly 800 studies published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanonc\/article\/PIIS1470-2045(15)00444-1\/abstract\">Lancet Oncology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cancer Research UK guys put these <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org\/2015\/10\/26\/processed-meat-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know\/\">results in perspective<\/a> and I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re waiting to read their post \u2014 the conclusion we can draw from all this is that <strong>people who eat lots of red and processed meats, may want <em>moderate<\/em> their consumption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the IARC statement is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegetarian.org.uk\/eating-red-meat-increases-risk-death-cancer-or-heart-disease\">exploited<\/a> by the veg propaganda machine, which is using the fear of cancer to get more converts. The problem, of course is that, this is a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non_sequitur_(logic)\">non sequitur<\/a><\/em>: Meat causing cancer doesn&#8217;t mean a veg diet is healthier or won&#8217;t cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep13484#abstract\">recent study<\/a> that collected data from 10,210 people \u2014including 1,040\u2014 vegetarians sought to answer <strong>how a vegetarian or low meat diet influences the risk of colorectal cancer compared with a diet rich in meat<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Results from this prospective cohort study showed a <strong>modest, non-significantly decreased risk of colorectal cancer for vegetarians<\/strong>, pescetarians, and 1 day\/week meat eaters compared to 6-7 day\/week meat consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Although the risk of colorectal and especially rectal cancer was lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, <strong>this was not statistically significant<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10479225?dopt=Abstract&amp;holding=npg\">Another study<\/a> found that <strong>colorectal cancer mortality doesn&#8217;t differ between vegetarians and nonvegetarians<\/strong>. Furthermore, yet <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/89\/5\/1620S\">another study<\/a> found that the <strong>rate of colorectal cancer is <em>higher<\/em> among vegetarians than in nonvegetarians<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, excessive consumption of red and processed meats can cause cancer but <strong>quitting them altogether does not reduce the risk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rebdo.org\/post\/132017016191\/la-dieta-baja-en-consumo-de-carne-no-disminuye\">Rebdo<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One study found that colorectal cancer mortality doesn\u2019t differ between vegetarians and nonvegetarians. Another study found that the rate of colorectal cancer is *higher* among vegetarians than in nonvegetarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[222,112,237,122,276,349],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-cancer","tag-food","tag-health","tag-popularizing-science","tag-science","tag-veg-veganism-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}