 Cervical cancer is now considered a sexually transmitted disease. Originally suspected as such as it was supposedly found less in nuns and more in prostitutes, but now we have DNA fingerprinting proof that virtually all cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, human papillomavirus, which also causes cancer of the penis, vagina, vulva, and throat. HPV is considered a necessary, but not sufficient cause of cancer. Most young women contract HPV, but most don't get cervical cancer because their immune systems are able to clear out the virus. 70% of women clear the infection within one year, and more than 90% within two years before the virus can cause cancer, unless you're immunocompromised or something. Well if that's the case, maybe those with particularly strong immune systems might clear the virus even faster. That's what may be behind this new study that found that vegetarian women appear to have significantly lower infection rates with HPV. One of many studies reporting vegetarians having lower risk of HPV infection thought to be because of the presence of more fruits and vegetables in their diet, which are rich sources, while sorts of good phytonutrients. So for example, if you take a bunch of women with cancer-causing strains of HPV infecting their cervix and follow them out and retest at three months and then nine months, while analyzing their diets, what do you find? Higher levels of vegetable consumption may cut the risk of HPV persistence in half, double one's likelihood of clearing this potentially cancer-causing infection, and higher levels just meant like two or more servings a day. What do antioxidants and plants have to do with viral diseases? Different antioxidants affect different viruses in different ways, but against HPV, don't you know that electrophoretic mobility supershift assay showed irrespective of enhanced C-phosphorinspiration? C-junus phosphorylated became primarily heterodimerized with Fra 1, which was also induced after PDTC and Cubasinimine Duh. I had to read this paper like five times. Long story short, antioxidants appear to suppress the activation of critical segments of the virus's DNA. Maybe that's why smearing green tea on genital warts, also caused by HPV, has been found so effective in clearing them. In terms of preventing cervical cancer, through their role as antioxidants, phytonutrients like lutein, found in dark green leafy vegetables, and lycopene, the red pigment in tomatoes, may decrease viral load, thereby decreasing persistence and progression to disease. Whereas the protective associations, maybe due to their antioxidant properties, they have all sorts of other wonderful effects of who knows, who cares. Bottom line, higher consumption of vegetables may decrease risk of HPV persistence, which may help explain why this 2013 study found vegan women have significantly lower rates of all female cancers combined, including cancer of the cervix.