As far as I can tell, cancer comes from worrying and mostly constant tension in your body.
Not only this is false but it is a perfect example of blaming the victim.
I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
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Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#252Does anyone here looked into what checkups need to do yearly? I looked around, and each doctor seems to give different advice
I do yearly routine blood screening but not sure whether that would pick up cancer.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#253As usual correlation don't imply causation. My uncle was a professional national level runner, he was the healtier person that I know: he ran several kilometers every day, ate correctly, no drinking, no smoking, sleep at least 8 hours/day, etc. He died from cardiovascular problems. This not means that a correct and healty lifestyle is not going to reduce the risk, but it's not the only factor.
There is a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia. People who eat normal, balanced diets have LDLs levels in the 1000's (normal is less than 100). You can take a blood sample and watch the fat float to the top like cream in fresh milk.
They often die of cardiovascular disease when young. And it's just a genetic defect.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#254> I have been getting a full-body health check-up done regularly for many years.
I’m curious how this works in other countries, because in mine doctors don’t really do “full body checkups”. You’d might get a few specific tests if you knew what to ask for, but doctors really do not do any kind of regular comprehensive exams sufficient to detect early cancer like this. If you insisted, you’re likely to just be treated like a hypochondriac unfortunately.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not defending totalitarianism, but capitalist democracy really does a piss poor job at controlling negative externalities, to the point that I’m not really convinced it’s a good system of governance anymore.
Tax the externalities. Capitalism is fully compatible with using the price system to express preferences on externalities.
Capitalism operates fine when you tax the externalities, it’s democracy that has an issue setting up the taxes rationally rather than based on which groups have political power.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#256This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…
> I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution seriously, and stuff like PFOAs that are still used round, without having it be totally overshadowed and drowned in noise by the "fight climate change" crowd or the "extinction rebellion" nutcases.
Most of the people you called "nutcases" are protesting against exactly the pollutants you described.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Timely colonoscopies save lives. However, I have a hunch that frequent colonoscopies are maybe not a good idea. Doubts: 1. We know more but we don't know all things creating colon cancer. Knowing the existence of cancers caused by viruses, disinfection procedures applied on the device could matter a lot. 2. Even if we disinfect properly, we know of a notorious little fellow: H.pylori, which can go down to the intesti…
> It's necessary but every year? Doubtful without more data. Did you read the part where the commenter said that they have an unusual genetical condition and that's the reason they have yearly colonoscopies?
Yes, I did. I'm not denying the validity of the case here.
My concern is related with the core risks of the procedure.
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#258This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…
>I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole.
I always heard of general phrasing like "increases likelihood of cancer", but this sentence gives me the impression that there have been multiple conclusive studies on the direct contributions of urban pollution to individual cases of cancer. Can someone here who looked through such studies comment, or at least point to them by any chance?
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Legally mandating remote work and adding public transit options and raising the cost of daily useless commute would go a veeeeeery long way. Because the petrol not burned by driving can be used to replace the coal plants.
> Legally mandating remote work That's... extremely totalitarian :) ...but legally forcing employers to allow remote work X days a week for jobs where it makes sense + solid investment in public transit would make wonders.
No, it's not totalitarian at all. The same as not accepting slavery, murder or cannibalism.
This is totalitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
#260She must've listened to the pro-PUFA crowd on Hacker News.