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Vegan Diet Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

Vegan Diet Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

Vegan Diet Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer 

In November of last year, Yessenia Tantamango-Bartley and other scientists published a paper in the prestigious, peer-reviewed American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which demonstrated that “vegan diets showed a statistically significant protective association with prostate cancer risk.”

It took a while, but popular media sources are finally starting to pick up on it. On March 3rd, the UK edition of The Huffington Post covered the story, and coverage swiftly followed in The Independent, The Daily Mail, etc.

This was no small study, including more than 26,000 men. The study found that the vegans in their study population had a 35% lower risk of developing prostate cancer than non-vegans. In medicine, 35% is an out of the ballpark difference.

The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 26,120 Americans will die of prostate cancer this year. 35% of 26,120 is 9,142. That’s 9,142 lives that can be saved each year moving forward if men were willing to adopt a vegan diet.

The Huffington Post article quotes Jimmy Pierce, spokesman for the Vegan Society in the UK, as saying:

“The evidence around the disease-preventative qualities of the vegan diet is now overwhelming. Time and again we are seeing new research showing the vegan diet to be significantly better for our health.

“Still lingering, however, is the perception that eating meat is macho, that it somehow enhances masculinity or virility. Yet it is killing thousands of men in the UK every year.

“Now is the time to reject this outdated notion and embrace plant-based living regardless of gender – for the animals and the planet as well as your health.”

We could not agree more!

You can read the Huffington Post article here.

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