Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

Post by Freedom2 » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

pdpi wrote: post #151

staticassertion wrote: post #128

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You're on a discussion forum where the topic is colon cancer. Surely you understand that people are going to discuss it? It's a bit hard to tell from your post what you're saying. Certainly I can imagine being annoyed by constantly being given health advice from layman. But this is... a forum.

There's a bazillion ways to discuss a topic that don't involve giving advice with unearned confidence. Even just saying "My experience is that doing X helped" instead of "You should do X" is a massive massive difference.

Post by mixmastamyk » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

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It's better than the "Food Pyramid" and "MyPlate" which were the gov standards when I was growing up. Those standards put processed carbs like bread/pasta as the largest part of a "healthy diet". Whoops.

Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they are very healthy. "Food pyramid dumb, eat meat" is a very reductive take.

Post by secstate » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

imjonse wrote: post #113

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I think this is probably due to people suffering from the just-world fallacy. Most folks like to believe that if you do the right things and consume the right stuff you'll have a long and healthy life when the fact of the matter is that luck/randomness plays a much larger role in your health than most people would like to admit.

One should acknowledge the role genes/luck play in disease, while also admitting that there are a few foods about which there is more or less consensus they are very bad for your health. So you can roll your eyes if someone suggests eating kale sprouts will cure all your problems but don't just keep eating junk food as if the opposite of their take must be good.

Post by triceratops » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #163

triceratops wrote: post #112

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Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they are very healthy. "Food pyramid dumb, eat meat" is a very reductive take.

Folks had to do the harvest and milling work themselves until recently, it’s not the same. Nor are the quantities.

Post by franktankbank » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

dbspin wrote: post #126

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I think this is probably due to people suffering from the just-world fallacy. Most folks like to believe that if you do the right things and consume the right stuff you'll have a long and healthy life when the fact of the matter is that luck/randomness plays a much larger role in your health than most people would like to admit.

One hundred percent. I work in film, and recently had an argument with a friend around this point. He's incredibly healthy, and frequently works a large number of unsociable hours. I was pointing out that filmmaking hours make no concession for family or age. He'd convinced himself that he'll have no more difficulty doing 80 hour weeks in his forties and fifties than he does in his mid thirties, because he 'takes car…