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Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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Re: Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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noIdeaTheSecond wrote: post #2

My wild guess before reading the article: unhealthy food. A big part of which is herbicides and pesticides. I will now read the article.

Don't people eat more healthy than they did 50 years ago? Weren't microwave dinners a big thing in the 70s?

Re: Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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Post by aeturnum »

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #4

If I had one unqualified guess free — and boy am I unqualified here — I’d wager it’s those „zero sugar“ stuffs. No way you can just replace (also very very not good for you) sugar with something else and end up with all the upsides and no downsides.

Without counting anything out it's worth saying that artificial sweeteners are some of the most-tested food ingredients because of concern about their health impacts. It's possible that we missed something, but you have to weigh that against the chance we missed something about every other possible food ingredient (all of which have been tested less).

Re: Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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Post by geremiiah »

gopalv wrote: post #11
noIdeaTheSecond wrote: post #2

My wild guess before reading the article: unhealthy food. A big part of which is herbicides and pesticides. I will now read the article.

My personal bugbear is the lack of sleep & entirely tied to the phone for that. I remember being in my 20s and not being able to sleep, but the most distracting thing I could reach for was a pile of books in my bedside table. Now, I can't sleep, there's an endless stream of things to keep me awake. The jokes about "5G gives you cancer" is probably not as funny, if you think about the sleep you miss while you doom scr…

Lack of sleep, not because of phones but because of more demanding lives due to modern education and workplace demands. Phones might contribute too, but consider how normal it is today to work till late hours compared to previous generations.
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