Vegetarians have a 45 percent lower risk of being diagnosed with cancers of the blood, including multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer last Wednesday.

More specifically, the study found that there was a difference of 75 percent relative risk between vegetarians and meat eaters for developing multiple myeloma.

For this research, scientists at the University of Oxford compared vegetarians’ and meat eaters’ risks of developing cancer. This was done by analyzing data about more than 61,000 British men and women over the course …