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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18900, 15 January 1927, Page 15

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VEGETARIANS AND CANCER

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(Received January 14th, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, January 13.

An analysis of life among monastic communities conclusively proves that fatal canoer does occur in populations abstaining from flesh food and does not support Rollo Russell's contention that cancer is relatively low in such communities: So say Dr. Copeland and Major Greenwood, members of the Department of Cancer Research, after an investigation of the various religious orders in England, France, and Belgium. These investigations reveal that an English Carthusian house contained 52 monks who lived under rigid rules in a cell of four small rooms from which they emerged nightly to attend a service lasting from 10.30 to 2 o'clock in the morning, for the midday meal, and for a walk each Sunday. They do not eat meat or poultry, even in illness, and do not smoke. The Cistercians are wholly forbidden meat, while fish and eggs are allowed only as an indulgence to the weak.