If a whole food plant based diet is so powerful against disease why do those on a plant based diet get cancer? This was a question asked to Dr Michael Greger! I was informed of a prominent plant based educator who died at the age of 51 from a possible cancer diagnosis which seemed to shake the vegan world. But we must remember there is so much more to health than just diet and a plant based diet is not a panacea. So let's hear what Dr Greger had to say in answer to the question....

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Studies
Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638849/

https://www.aicr.org/news/new-study-links-cancer-and-cancer-deaths-to-lifestyle-factors/

Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21440

Cancer in British vegetarians: updated analyses of 4998 incident cancers in a cohort of 32,491 meat eaters, 8612 fish eaters, 18,298 vegetarians, and 2246 vegans
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24898235/

Vegetarian diets and the incidence of cancer in a low-risk population
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23169929/

Risk of cancer in regular and low meat-eaters, fish-eaters, and vegetarians: a prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02256-w#:~:text=Conclusions,in%20lifestyle%20such%20as%20smoking.


Plant-Based and Ketogenic Diets As Diverging Paths to Address Cancer
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2794147



Dr Greger's YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg

Dr Greger’s website
http://nutritionfacts.org/

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