Vegetarian diet raises risk of cancer?

[Jaywalker]

dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3515293/Vegetarian-diet-raises-risk-heart-disease-cancer.html

Not sure if that's been posted, but what do you think about this?

I haven't read the original study, but the first sentence set off my bullshit alarm: "Vegetarianism over generations can result in genetic mutations which increase the risk of heart disease and cancer."

Can our diet really change the genes our children inherit? Even if it can, is there evidence to support this?

[Jaywalker]

Yeah, that was bullshit alright: https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/human-genome-shaped-by-vegetarian-diet-increases-risk-of-cancer-and-heart-disease

[EquALLity]

Don't trust the Daily Mail. It's worse than FOX.

[brimstoneSalad]

It's bullshit, a total misunderstanding of evolution, and fractally wrong.

1. This is an issue of changing diets; it's because they used to eat diets low in Omega-6, and are now eating diets extremely high in Omega-6 (both different vegetarian diets). This is not a vegetarian vs. meat issue, it's an issue of very high Omega-6 oils which have been added into these diets. Change the oil to healthier oils, and you remove the risk. The risk does not increase outside the context of the addition of these oils.

2. Vegetarianism doesn't cause genetic mutations. A diet very low in Omega-6 given to a large population will make people WITH the mutation more successful over hundreds of thousands of years, making the mutation more common because the people without it were not as healthy or fertile (or had higher infant or child mortality).

3. None of this is an issue (or a meaningful selective pressure) in modern diets, which are comparatively nutrient rich. Modern vegetarian diets (as long as they aren't very low fat) contain plenty of Omega-6, so would not drive such selective pressures for inheriting this mutation.

[Unknownfromheaven]

http://www.techinsider.io/vegetarian-di ... =buffer-ti

Is this true ?

[brimstoneSalad]

http://www.techinsider.io/vegetarian-di ... =buffer-ti

Is this true ?

No.

Here's another thread on it: https://theveganatheist.com/forum/viewt ... f=7&t=2001

EDIT: Merged.