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Largest ever study finds vegetarian diets linked to lower risk of five cancers (www.ceu.ox.ac.uk)
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Downside: Oesophageal cancer risk ๐Ÿ˜•

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[โ€“] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One thing I would've initially speculated but apparently had wrong was dietary acid, which is actually lower in plant-based diets. The other would be possibly volume of food (lower caloric density), but overall, I'm willing to take the authors' speculation as-is, as I'm sure they tried to find any relevant data when speculating about causality โ€“ much more thoroughly and knowledgeably than I could hope to.

[โ€“] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Last time I took some dietary acid, I was laying in bed for the next 16 hours.