Vegetarians 'get fewer cancers'

Maybe.

"A vegetarian diet may help to protect against cancer, a UK study suggests.

Analysis of data from 52,700 men and women shows that those who did not eat meat had significantly fewer cancers overall than those who did.

But surprisingly, the researchers also found a higher rate of colorectal cancer - a disease linked with eating red meat - among the vegetarians."

Maybe not.

Must be all that colon cancer-causing fiber.

They really have no idea what is going on.

"He added: 'It doesn't support the idea that vegetarians would have lower rates of colorectal cancer and I think it means we need to think more carefully about how meat fits into it.'

More work is needed to unpick the links between diet and cancer but such studies are incredibly hard to do, he said."

Yes.

Which is why one's best bet is to get fit.

Plainly and simply.