Vegetarian diet affects cancer risk
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Health benefits and risk associated with adopting a vegetarian diet.
A vegetarian diet may be adopted for various reasons that can include ecological, economic, religious, ethical and health considerations. In the latter case they arise from the desire to lose weight, in tackling obesity, improving physical fitness and/or in reducing the risk of acquiring certain diseases. It has been shown that properly applied vegetarian diet is the most effective way of reduc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Endocrinology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1759-5029,1759-5037
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.121