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Breast cancer from a all vegetarian diet...

Posted by: Hamburger man. on February 14, 19100 at 11:46:31:

There is alot of messages here about increased mortality among meat-eaters. Is that really true? Others (see: You need to compare the right things... - Lars, February 11 19100, and Bullshit. Do your homework better!!! - Lars, February 09 19100) have shown the opposite.

However, did you know that you can get breast cancer from a all vegeratian diet? I don't really believe it but since you seem to attack all those poor meat-eaters...


"Extract" from British Medical Journal, 1996;313:775-779.

Dietary habits and mortality in 11 000 vegetarians and health conscious people: results of a 17 year follow up.

Timothy J A Key (research scientist) and Paul N Appleby (scientific officer), Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
Margaret Thorogood (senior lecturer), Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London.
Michael L Burr (senior lecturer), Centre for Applied Public Health Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.

"A vegetarian diet was also associated with a significant increase in mortality from breast cancer."

References:

Mills PK, Beeson WL, Phillips RL, Fraser GE. Dietary habits and breast cancer incidence among Seventh-day Adventists. Cancer 1989;64:582-90.

Rao DN, Ganesh B, Desai PB. Role of reproductive factors in breast cancer in a low-risk area: a case-control study. Br J Cancer 1994;70:129-32.

Mills PK, Annegers JF, Phillips RL. Animal product consumption and subsequent fatal breast cancer risk among Seventh-day Adventists. Am J Epidemiol 1988;127:440-53.

Well now I'm going for a big hamburger,
Hamburger man.


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