The evidence mounts: yet more reasons to eat a varied vegetarian diet

Today, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) updated and significantly expanded its position on vegetarian diets. The ADA argues that well-planned veggie diets are salubrious for people of all ages; that they can help prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

Read the ADA press release.

Also today, Cancer Research UK announced a British Journal of Cancer (BJC) study declaring vegetarians 12 percent less likely than meat eaters (on average) to contract some form of cancer. According to the study, the most striking gaps concerned "cancers of the blood including leukaemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The risk of these diseases was 45 per cent lower in vegetarians than in meat eaters."

Read the Cancer Research UK press release.

Read the BJC study.

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