"Long term vegetarian diet changes human DNA raising risk of cancer and heart disease"
Long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found.
Populations who have had a primarily vegetarian diet for generations were found to be far more likely to carry DNA which makes them susceptible to inflammation.
> Scientists in the US believe that the mutation occured to make it easier for vegetarians to absorb essential fatty acids from plants.
> But it has the knock-on effect of boosting the production of arachidonic acid, which is linked to inflammatory disease and cancer. When coupled with a diet high in vegetable oils - such as sunflower oil - the mutated gene quickly turns fatty acids into dangerous arachidonic acid.
The finding may help explain previous research which found vegetarian populations are nearly 40 per cent more likely to suffer colorectal cancer than meat eaters, a finding that has puzzled doctors because eating red meat is known to raise the risk.
My grandfather ate red meat every day of his life and died from cancer. It almost like a roulette wheel, isn't it?
Kayden Turner
>My grandfather ate red meat every day of his life and died from cancer. >It almost like a roulette wheel, isn't it?
But my father was told all his life that eating vegetables is good for him. Now he is paying the price for those lies.
Hudson Perry
My grandfather didn't eat anything of his entire like and now he's died of cancer
Henry Lopez
> Scientists in the US believe that the mutation occured to make it easier for vegetarians to absorb essential fatty acids from plants. > But it has the knock-on effect of boosting the production of arachidonic acid, which is linked to inflammatory disease and cancer. When coupled with a diet high in vegetable oils - such as sunflower oil - the mutated gene quickly turns fatty acids into dangerous arachidonic acid.
Nice to see some actual research done instead of "vegan bro science."
Christian Adams
You're not citing any evidence OP. Where are your quotes from? I suspect you're a full of shit troll.
Brayden Williams
>Where are your quotes from? Scientists in the US
Jeremiah Collins
Researchers from Cornell University in the US compared hundreds of genomes from a primarily vegetarian population in Pune, India to traditional meat-eating people in Kansas and found there was a significant genetic difference.
> “Those whose ancestry derives from vegetarians are more likely to carry genetics that more rapidly metabolise plant fatty acids,” said Tom Brenna, Professor of Human Nutrition at Cornell.
“In such individuals, vegetable oils will be converted to the more pro-inflammatory arachidonic acid, increasing the risk for chronic inflammation that is implicated in the development of heart disease, and exacerbates cancer.
I believe Cornell professors are all liars. I would much rather get my nutrition info from a Cantonese human trafficking forum.
James Collins
>“Those whose ancestry derives from vegetarians are more likely to carry genetics that more rapidly metabolise plant fatty acids,” said Tom Brenna, Professor of Human Nutrition at Cornell. >“In such individuals, vegetable oils will be converted to the more pro-inflammatory arachidonic acid, increasing the risk for chronic inflammation that is implicated in the development of heart disease, and exacerbates cancer.
Wanna guess what India's cancer rate is?
Brandon Bailey
neither has been wrong or right evolution works by shuffling genetic shit until some of it sticks they were just unlucky on the only game that allowed us to thrive in this planet be glad for them and rejoyce on their genetic mishaps, for they are as necessary as the next evolutionary step on humanity's ladder
Ayden Scott
>You're not citing any evidence OP. Where are your quotes from?
Thanks for asking! This scientific research was conducted by the Cornell University.
*The more you know**************
Nathaniel Hill
Vegetarian diet does NOT increase cancer risk: Researchers clarify Researchers of the much-publicized study linking vegetarian diet to cancer say their findings were misrepresented.
>Getting older improve your chance of getting cancer.
Might as well eat meat then!
Zachary Morales
My grandfather was a trapper and hunter who ate meat almost exclusively for the best portion of his life. He's still alive and with us at 98 years old. He's awesome, he killed loads of nips on Okinawa during WW2. He fucked up a few nazi krauts in the early European campaign as well. I'll miss him when he's gone. He makes an awesome chilli.
Isaiah Nelson
I'm not vegetarian.
People ask source because your thread looks like a pathetic attempt at trying to justify your disdain for vegetables.
>scientists have found tantalizing evidence that a vegetarian diet has led to a mutation that—if they stray from a balanced omega-6 to omega-3 diet—may make people more susceptible to inflammation, and by association, increased risk of heart disease and colon cancer.
Seems like it's the change in balance of omega-6 and 3 that cause the issue and not the vegetarian diet itself. Although it's still very problematic since you never know if you'll someday be forced to change your diet for a reason or another.
India always have the most fucked up disease anyway.
and veggies and fruits and carbs key is to vary food.
Joseph Turner
I don't care about this study... but those India cancer rates are pretty scary & undeniable.
If you're eating only one type of food for the rest of your life, you probably should just get cancer and end the misery.
Joseph Carter
>I don't care about this study... but those India cancer rates are pretty scary & undeniable.
Yep. 15x the rate of digestive tract cancers as westerners. And high colon cancer rates to boot.
WTF India?
Thomas Morris
Keep burying your head in the sand, faggot.
Make sure to come back & post when you inevitably get your Cancer diagnosis. kek
William Gonzalez
These constant threads gave me cancer.
Hunter Gutierrez
This copypasta sucks
Isaac Davis
There's no link to any study or even an article in the OP. Is there one? Since everything I've read suggests the opposite.
Noah Richardson
see
Joshua Edwards
Nice shitpost.
Dominic Rodriguez
>eat vegetables every day, die of cancer >eat meat every day, die of cancer Perhaps if we eat meat and vegetables but on alternate days we would avoid cancer as we would be cutting our cancer pollution bill by 50%
