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Looks like being a vegetarian has countless benefits attached to it.
Based on a latest medical study it was discovered that vegetarians are 12 per cent less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters are.
In a study conducted by the Cancer Research scientists in Oxford University involving 61,000 vegetable and meat eaters for over 12 years, it was discovered that 3,350 were diagnosed with cancer.
The researchers found out that the risk of being diagnosed with cancers of the stomach, bladder and blood was lower in vegetarians than in meat eaters.
The researchers revealed the most striking difference was in cancers of the blood including leukaemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The risk of these diseases was 45 per cent lower in vegetarians than in meat eaters.
Professor Tim Key, who is part of the research team, explained their large resulted to the findings that likelihood of people developing some cancers is lower among vegetarians than among people who eat meat.

Vegetarians had reasons to smile these days since they are less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters are.

Key said that in particular vegetarians were much less likely to develop cancers of the blood, which include leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
However, more research is needed to substantiate these results and to look for reasons for the differences.
Furthermore, Key said the study looked at 20 different types of cancers.
The differences in risks between vegetarians and meat eaters were independent of other lifestyle behaviours including smoking, alcohol intake and obesity, which also affect the chance of developing cancer.