{"id":68560,"date":"2026-03-03T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/?p=68560"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:44:33","slug":"vegetarians-have-a-lower-risk-of-five-types-of-cancer-according-to-a-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/vegetarians-have-a-lower-risk-of-five-types-of-cancer-according-to-a-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians have a lower risk of five types of cancer, according to a study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Scientists found that vegetarians are less likely than omnivores to develop pancreatic, breast, prostate and kidney cancers, as well as multiple myeloma (a blood cancer), although they showed a higher incidence of a major malignant cancer of the oesophagus. The study does not demonstrate causality, but it reinforces the idea that avoiding meat may help reduce the risk of certain cancers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analysed data from more than 1.8 million people in India, Taiwan, the UK and the US, according to a study published on Friday in the\u00a0<em>British Journal of Cancer<\/em>. The sample included approximately 1.65 million meat-eaters, 57,016 poultry-eaters, 42,910 pescatarians, 63,147 vegetarians and 8,849 vegans. The data were adjusted to account for a range of physical and lifestyle differences, including body mass index (BMI), a rough measure of healthy weight\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ce5a1436-51a8-4d3c-9eaa-4c8644bacf83\"><em>Financial Times<\/em>, 27 February 2026<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;68561&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Scientists found that vegetarians are less likely than omnivores to develop pancreatic, breast, prostate and kidney cancers, as well as multiple myeloma (a blood cancer), although they showed a higher incidence of a major malignant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-68560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-health","tag-cancer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68562,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68560\/revisions\/68562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}