One simple diet change could prevent thousands of cancer cases, global study finds
December 30, 2025 by Futura Team
This international study, led by teams at the University of Edinburgh and the University of North Carolina, used advanced modeling to show how small dietary changes could yield enormous long-term health benefits. Published in The Lancet Planetary Health, the findings point toward a simple, evidence-based strategy for fighting chronic disease.
The researchers used a sophisticated microsimulation method based on U.S. national health and nutrition data from 2015 to 2018. The model recreated the real eating habits of American adults, allowing the team to calculate how reducing meat intake by anywhere from 5% to 100% might affect public health.
The results were staggering: an estimated 732,000 fewer diabetes cases and nearly 300,000 fewer cardiovascular events. This predictive model gave scientists a concrete way to assess how even small dietary changes could transform population health outcomes — and, potentially, shape smarter nutrition policy.
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