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CC Risk of Cancer
CC Risk of Cancer
2. Give the risk of developing a cancer (%) and the comparison of Life
expectancy among the following:
a. Pure Vegetarian : a vegetarian who consumes only plant foods (vegetables, fruits,
grains, beans and nuts) and no animal products (meat, fish, dairy products, eggs). In the two
largest previous prospective studies following vegetarians, EPIC-Oxford and AHS-2 found
that being a vegetarian was associated with a 10% and 8% lower risk of all cancer than
being a meat-eater, respectively, after adjusting for lifestyle risk factors and BMI. A team of
researchers at Loma Linda University in the United States has shown vegetarian men
live for an average of 10 years longer than non-vegetarian men — 83 years compared to
73 years. For women, being vegetarian added an extra 6 years to their lives, helping
them reach 85 years on average.
b. Lacto-ovo Vegetarians : a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products, eggs, vegetables,
fruits, grains, and nuts. After adjusting for demographic and clinical factors, the researchers
found that individuals who ate a vegetarian diet were at a 22% lower risk of colorectal
cancer, with a 19% reduced risk of colon cancer and a 29% reduced risk of rectal cancer,
compared with participants who did not follow a vegetarian diet. Lacto-ovo vegetarians had
an 18% lower risk. Vegetarians had followed their eating pattern for an average of 19 to 39
years, depending on the type. In about a six-year span, 2,570 of the participants died.
Overall, vegetarians were 12 percent less likely to have died in that time than were non-
vegetarians. Mortality rates were lowest for vegans, lacto-ovo vegetarians and pesco-
vegetarians. Male vegetarians were somewhat less likely to have died than female
vegetarians.
c. Purely carnivores : a carnivore is an organism (mostly animals) that derives its food and
energy requirements exclusively (or nearly so) from the tissue and meat of other animals.
“Carnivore” quite literally translates into meat-eater from the Latin “caro” and “varorare. The
carnivore diet is high in saturated fats which can cause elevated LDL or bad cholesterol and
put you at risk for heart disease. What's more, many different kinds of processed meats like
bacon and some lunch meats are loaded with sodium and have been linked to certain types of
cancer. Consuming too much red and processed meat causes 18% of bowel cancer cases.
Processed meat is classified as a Class 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
Research shows that people who eat red meat are at a higher risk of death from heart
disease, stroke or diabetes. Processed meats also make the risk of death from these
diseases go up.
d. Carnivore person who also eat vegetables : Omnivores consume both plant-based and
animal-based diets. Compared to vegans and vegetarians, they may be more prone to cancer,
diabetes, and heart disease. Vegetarians have a 70% risk of developing cancer, compared
to 100% for omnivores. The risk of belly fat, a higher BMI, obesity, dirty feces, and early
aging appear to be increased by an omnivorous diet. In omnivores, the trend was mild, with
variation in longevity being accounted for about equally by mass and reproduction. Also,
compared to herbivores and carnivores, which were not different from one another,
omnivores lived far longer and reproduced at higher rates.