People who avoid meat and dairy products in their diets are 12 per cent less likely to get cancers, reports a new study of 80,000 Americans.
The study was done by researchers at Loma Linda University in California and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study compared vegans with people who ate meat and dairy products over an eight-year period and found the vegans has a 12 per cent overall risk of cancer.
The most notable overall reductions were in prostate, breast, colorectal, stomach and lymphoproliferative cancers.
