Why Might Vegetarians Have Less HPV?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-07-10

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DESCRIPTION: Most young women get infected with human papilloma virus, the cause of cervical cancer, but most are able to clear the infection before the virus causes cancer. What dietary changes can improve viral clearance?

Vegetarians appear to have lower rates of all cancers combined (see Vegetarians Versus Healthy Omnivores, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetarians-versus-healthy-omnivores/), but this is the first study of cancer rates among thousands of North American vegans. There other reasons that help explain these results, from lower levels of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 (The Answer to the Pritikin Puzzle, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-answer-to-the-pritikin-puzzle/), the foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc (How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-tumors-use-meat-to-grow-xeno-autoantibodies/), and heterocyclines in cooked meat (Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/estrogenic-cooked-meat-carcinogens/) to more of the good stuff (#1 Anticancer Vegetable, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/1-anticancer-vegetable/ and Which Fruit Fights Cancer Better?, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-fruit-fights-cancer-better)

Other viruses may actually be found in the food. See, for example: 

• Poultry and Penis Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-and-penis-cancer/)
• Foodborne Rabies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/foodborne-rabies/)
• Wart Cancer Viruses in Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/wart-cancer-virusesin-food/)
• Obesity-Causing Chicken Virus (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/obesity-causing-chicken-virus/)
• Hepatitis E Virus in Pork (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hepatitis-e-virus-in-pork/)
• Pets & Human Lymphoma (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pets-human-lymphoma/)

The other HPV video I reference is Treating Genital Warts With Green Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-genital-warts-with-green-tea/).

More on improving immune function with improved nutrition can be found in Boosting Immunity While Reducing Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-while-reducing-inflammation) and Boosting Immunity Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-through-diet/).

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Image Credit: National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Tumor Virus Biology.

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