According to a study published in the journal Cancer, Seventh-day Adventists who frequently eat a plant-based diet have a lower risk of developing cancer and dying from any cause. Researchers compared all-cause mortality and cancer incidence rates in participants in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) with the general U.S. population documented in statistics. Early death and cancer rates were lower in the AHS-2 population by 33 and 30 percent, respectively, compared with the general population. Early death and cancer rates were lower among dark-skinned AHS-2 participants by 36 and 22 percent, respectively, compared to dark-skinned people in the statistics.
The authors attribute the lower risk of cancer, higher quality of life in later years, and benefits on other outcomes in the AHS-2 group to lifestyle, primarily reduced or complete meat consumption, non-smoking, and exercise, and suggest that these results could transfer the general population by adopting similar habits.
Source:
Fraser GE, Cosgrove CM, Mashchak AD, Orlich MJ, Altekruse SF. Lower rates of cancer and all-cause mortality in an Adventist cohort compared with a US census population. Cancer. Published online November 25, 2019.
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