{"id":31523,"date":"2025-04-11T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=31523"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:36:10","slug":"do-amish-have-lower-cancer-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/do-amish-have-lower-cancer-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bekommen die Amish Krebs? Ja, aber seltener als ihre Nachbarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. The Amish get cancer, but less often than their neighbors. In the main study of cancer incidence among them, Amish adults in Holmes County, Ohio, had a cancer rate about 60 percent of the rate among other white Ohioans from 1996 to 2003. The gap is widest for cancers caused by tobacco. How much lower is the Amish cancer rate? The study, by Judith Westman and colleagues, appeared in Cancer Causes &amp; Control in 2010. The researchers drew 130\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Ohio Amish adults had 60 percent of the cancer rate of other white Ohioans, mostly because few use tobacco, though tobacco does not explain it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[218],"class_list":["post-31523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-who-are-the-amish"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31516,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/amish-circumcision\/","url_meta":{"origin":31523,"position":0},"title":"Do the Amish Get Circumcised? 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