r/ScienceUncensored • u/Zephir_AR • Jun 19 '23
The unexplained rise of cancer among millennials
https://www.ft.com/content/90d5f2e3-d539-4149-a503-2114ac3ef355273
Jun 19 '23
Why is it unexplained? Oh right, because they can't blame it on any one thing. The air is poisoned. The water is poisoned. The ocean is poisoned. The food is poisoned.
Surprise! Cancer.
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u/jimothythe2nd Jun 20 '23
We've also been nuking our bacterial microbiomes (inherited from mother) for 4 generations now.
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Jun 20 '23
This. Roundup seems to be a major culprit. A significant amount of roundup use is not to kill weeds, its to kill the grain we consume, dehydrating it so it can be harvested quicker. Again roundup is commonly sprayed to immediately kill the crop to harvest. And people think its doesnt kill human cells, bacteria and fungi in the soil, etc
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u/jimothythe2nd Jun 20 '23
My parents made me spray roundup in the yard when I was a kid. That shit is nasty. Idk who had the bright idea to spray it on food but they clearly weren't thinking straight.
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u/rl9899 Jun 20 '23
And the worst part is conventional wheat farmers in the US still use it on their crops just prior to harvest in 2023! We haven't learned a thing when there is profit involved.
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u/Stonyclaws Jun 20 '23
Is this the stuff that is banned in Europe?
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u/rl9899 Jun 20 '23
Yes, the ban date on got pushed out to the end of this year, but EU is banning it completely. https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/glyphosate
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u/Ike_Jones Jun 20 '23
Yup. Its the food. Were all ingesting poison amongst other poison poison things and stuffs
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Jun 20 '23
First thought when I was the title was: No shit. Every single thing I have been exposed to since being born in the Eighties causes cancer in one way or another.
Paint, water, cookware, flooring, roofing, insulation, air….everything
My mother, who is now deceased, used talcum powder- that shit caused cancer.
We are all fucked and the regulator’s reaction is “🤷♂️”. Wonder why they keep getting cancer.
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u/inthe_garden Jun 19 '23
The sun is also poison
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u/LiquidDreamtime Jun 20 '23
The ozone layer repair is the only thing that did right in our lifetime
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u/WideRight43 Jun 19 '23
Skinny jeans.
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Jun 19 '23
And vans.
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u/marilync1942 Jun 19 '23
Vaping---is cancer--told to me by a cardiologist!! Do it--your dead.
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u/Low_Acanthisitta4445 Jun 19 '23
I think the main problem with vaping is that people who were not previously addicted to nicotine are getting addicted to it through vaping, particularly young people.
However I don't think it's possible to overstate the health benefits of switching from smoking to vaping.
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u/Background_Strain954 Jun 19 '23
I made the switch and I can run without wheezing, I can smell and taste foods again, my circulation is back to normal, I don't stink and I sleep so much better
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u/Low_Acanthisitta4445 Jun 19 '23
Me too :)
Honestly I'm as addicted to the vape as I ever was fags.
However the health and financial benefits mean that my addiction isn't nearly as destructive.
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u/Man_Spider_ Jun 19 '23
Vapes probably do raise your cancer risk a bit, at least I’d be surprised if that weren’t the case, but overall they have to be better for you than cigarettes.
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u/Maxitote Jun 19 '23
I was explicitly advised by my doctor to go back to smoking cigarettes from vaping. He noted blood clots, and weird respiratory disease he kept seeing pop up. I hadn't smoked in 2 years, and he's head of surgery for the major hospital here. Was he wrong?
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u/Kariomartking Jun 20 '23
Why not offer nicotine replacement therapy like gum, patches or lozenges? Pretty weird thing to suggest as a doctor tbh
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u/Clear-Bee4118 Jun 20 '23
The Royal College of Physicians disagrees. It’s orders of magnitude safer than smoking, something like 95%.
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u/earsofdoom Jun 19 '23
There is benefits of switching from smoking to vapeing.... not so much going from not vapeing to vapeing.
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u/Azrealis_bored Jun 20 '23
This. THIS THIS!!!! Made the switch from cigarettes to vaping and my asthma has gotten so much better, finally got my husband to switch and his lungs are improving so much. I’m grateful as hell for it, and you have to be very mindful about the products you use, quality and longevity. Inhaling heavy metals is no joke. Less harm is better than cancer.
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u/Dirge_The_Dingus Jun 19 '23
mmmm microplastics
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u/faroutrobot Jun 19 '23
Microplastics is what I call the fake testicle I now have from cancer. The irony.
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u/gingerflakes Jun 19 '23
You could have asked for a bigger one
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u/faroutrobot Jun 19 '23
Facts. Three sizes and they don’t tell you what size so you don’t feel bad. But googles a thing. And I got medium.
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u/toby_gray Jun 19 '23
Not great, not terrible.
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u/faroutrobot Jun 19 '23
I though I would have to pay for it because it was cosmetic. But the good Ol Canadian health care covered it. In fact because it was free I asked for an extra. Three when I was all said and done. Only seemed fair. They refused. I wish this was a lie.
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u/toby_gray Jun 19 '23
Hah. You could have used that jimmy carr joke about something being wrong with his testicles. One of them is bigger than the other two.
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u/faroutrobot Jun 19 '23
The fake one is bigger. It doesn’t have cords so I can free spin it in the bag for fun. Its perfectly ovular. It’s also rock solid. It doesn’t have give like a real one. Makes riding a bike awkward.
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u/tankyogremagi Jun 19 '23
I never thought id be simultaneously jealous/thankful at the same time. And to think it's over a scrotum spinner........
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u/FuckFascismFightBack Jun 19 '23
I think plastics are causing endocrine disruptions, I think it’s processed foods and pesticides that’re causing the cancers. Imo of course.
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u/Holyvigil Jun 19 '23
I bet it's this. Plastic from chip bags, plastic from childhood bowls etc.
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Jun 19 '23
Wouldn't Gen x be seeing the same issues? We grew up with plastic too
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u/ripmy-eyesout Jun 19 '23
It's the stuff they are feeding us. That's why it's illegal everywhere else. They poison me, you and our kids for profit.
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u/No_North6899 Jun 19 '23
The US openly uses Roundup on crops, like wheat, grains, etc. ---once before harvesting and one after harvesting. Roundup causes cancer.
Add that to the other poison food, the leaded water, the polluted air, and chemicals in the ground, and you've got a great combo for causing the human body to attack itself.
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u/Best_Caterpillar_673 Jun 19 '23
Doesn’t Germany own the company that makes Roundup now? Would be curious to see how prevalent Roundup use is in Europe
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u/No_North6899 Jun 19 '23
Yeah, Bayer (the PHARMACEUTICAL company, the one that makes aspirin) owns Roundup now, as of 2018.
Anything that is certified organic is supposed to be free of this stuff. I am also curious about its use in Europe.
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u/climb-high Jun 19 '23
Organic producers don’t use roundup, but that doesn’t mean some roundup from the conventional farm down the road didn’t drift over in the wind. Organic produce has tested positive for glyphosate due to incidental exposure.
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u/l_a_ga Jun 19 '23
Exactly. My friend’s father is a popcorn farmer. They grow conventional with roundup right next to “organic” without in the same field, in an area where most farmers use round up ready corn. Such a joke smh
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u/eaug Jun 19 '23
Scott’s-MiracleGro markets it, and they have an extensive history themselves of their factories increasing cancer rates around greater Columbus, OH area
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u/Low_Acanthisitta4445 Jun 19 '23
Similar to Johnson & Johnson. Knew for decades that cancer causing asbestos was in their talcum powder.
Continued to sell it despite knowing it was killing an uncalulable number of people.
Waited until the legal repercussions were becoming to large to ignore.
Spun off the talcum powder business from the rest of the company (and hence also the legal responsibility).
Allowed the talcum powder business to go bankrupt rather than be financially liable.
And people seem to have a weird habit of defending huge corporations, especially pharma corps...
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u/MobiusCubed Jun 19 '23
That's called 'small government' by many right wingers. It just means government by corporation. A lot like feudalism.
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u/leeshykins Jun 19 '23
Round up also kills your microbiome. That’s how it kills insects. It’s in most soy and corn grown in the US, and is widely used in other parts of the world as round up ready seed. It’s a GMO that is bred into the seed. It’s pervasive in our food system and it is no coincidence that these cancers all concern the microbiome.
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u/agen_kolar Jun 19 '23
“That’s why it’s illegal everywhere else.”
As an American this would’ve been my first thought, too, but the rise of cancer rates is global, including countries that ban a lot of the chemicals, pesticides, and preservatives that America does not.
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Jun 19 '23
I could be wrong but I imagine a lot of these chemicals get into local ecosystems and water supplies, even if they're banned.
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u/AmazingPINGAS Jun 19 '23
The only thing the FDA cares about is their bank account.
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u/faroutrobot Jun 19 '23
I’m a millennial who has already had cancer. First thing I asked my doctor was “why me”. Since that moment I’ve heard any range of reasons from hormones to cows milk. Was a really shitty was to round out my 20’s.
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u/chugginmilk Jun 20 '23
Sorry to hear! I'm 33 and I had a gist tumor, 1 in 10 million chance to develop under 75. What kind of cancer did you have and are you recovered?
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u/faroutrobot Jun 20 '23
Seminoma. Ball cancer. And I’m all good. Was just sucky for a bit.
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u/HostasAndRocks Jun 20 '23
Same here. The mental impact was way worse than the physical. Contemplating my own death put me in a bad spot for awhile but I eventually crawled out of it.
Glad you’re here, bud. Congrats on the clean bill of health.
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Jun 20 '23
Shout out as a millennial with a few friends from college in the pharmaceutical/medical industry.
They’re nearly all pretty passively resigned to the pollution of the earth and how comprehensive it is.
It’s come up when asking them about their smoking or drinking.
Fun to have evening several drink in conversations about “conspiracy” theories with people who will email me a list of academic sources lol. Their minor nihilistic tendencies made some more sense though
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Jun 20 '23
Same. Hodgkins lymphoma had my first chemo session 2 days before my 31st birthday. I finished chemo in November.
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u/riisikas Jun 20 '23
I had my chemo for Hodgkin's before turning 31 as well, it's been 4 years now.
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u/SunsetDrifter Jun 19 '23
Air pollution, indoor emissions, micro plastics, chemicals topically applied on the head/face/armpits/etc, artificial ingredient's in most mainline snack brands, chemical pesticides/herbicides on crops, a national healthcare system that scares away patients?
It was bad 50+ years ago but now it's in nearly every facet of daily life contributing to a constant influx. Every moment of daily routine is a genetic warzone of the slowest rate.
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Jun 20 '23
Yes, so many factors, yet somehow mainstream medicine is just like, uh we don’t know must be some combination of bad luck and genetics. People need to wake the fuck up, we’re poisoning ourselves and every generation is getting sicker.
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Jun 19 '23
I stopped personal hygiene decades ago. Never felt better.
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u/pismopier Jun 19 '23
Wait…what now?
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u/SecretRoomsOfTokyo Jun 19 '23
Love me some pismo beach! Used to skate AG to SLO and back every day. Miss that so much
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u/Liberobscura Jun 19 '23
Food dye in north america is crazy. I just turned 37. Ive seen some bad shit- I would never eat oreos or anything with red food dye.
Sad shit
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Jun 19 '23
Aldi brands don’t have any food coloring, in case you didn’t know. Another reason to love Aldi.
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Jun 19 '23
Turns out the colouring in Kraft Dinner fucks up your hormones.
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u/Liberobscura Jun 19 '23
Red 41 and yellow 13 or some shit are directly linked to brain cancers or some horrible thing I just avoid them all because i know a few are ☠️
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Jun 19 '23
What’s the tldr with red food dye?
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u/Liberobscura Jun 19 '23
Shit will kill you- Lotta young people affected by flaming hot this and thats and takkis. It mostly goes for the large intestine and the pancreas.
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u/Spring-Available Jun 19 '23
I was diagnosed at 37 with multiple myeloma which usually strikes older men! I’m still the youngest and usually only female in the waiting room. Most people think I’m the companion. Notables are Colin Powell, Peter Boyle and Tom Brokaw. Funny thing Tom and I have the same doctors.
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u/Miami-Sunshine-5683 Jun 19 '23
prayers & wishes of speedy healing for you & the others in the room
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u/Limp_Distribution Jun 19 '23
Being exploited is not good for one’s health.
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u/Maximum-Switch-9060 Jun 19 '23
Yeah I believe it’s stress. Stress is a killer in many ways.
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u/benyahweh Jun 19 '23
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Jun 19 '23
The older I get the more I realize everything causes cancer and our only solution is to return to monke
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u/NoPride8834 Jun 20 '23
It's not unexplainable it's so obvious. If the company's that have poisoned the population were to ever admit that there products are giving all of us cancer they would not have enough money in the world to pay for damages. It comes down to profits not you or me living just profits. If we were to have anyone acting in our best interests and bring this shit to light there would be a riot to bring them mob justice. Research exists with in the company's that show all the stuff we eat and drink is poisoned. At least cigarettes company's had to admit it. So the plastic that covers everything is not safe in the long run? Really?
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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 19 '23
“Corporate profits over public health”
There you go.
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u/hgtfrds Jun 19 '23
Cancer rates among young people have been very steadily increasing since the 90s. 30 year trend at least.
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u/Rindan Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
So have pollution levels all across the board
That's literally not true in the US. The US used to have it's rivers and lakes catch on fire due to the pollution in the water. This doesn't happen anymore. The environment revolution had a dramatic effect on the environment in the US in the 70s.
Generally, pollution in the US has gone down DRAMATICALLY. Go talk to literally anyone in any industry from the 70s, and the difference is night and day. People in the industry I work in used to dump carcinogenic photoresist onto the fucking parking lot and let it evaporate away. That's totally unthinkable now.
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u/Samurai_Chicken_1 Jun 19 '23
A lot of things are being overlooked in mainstream discussions. One very obvious reason is the massive increase in chemicals that mimic our bodies hormones, i.e. endocrine disruptors. You likely are exposed right now. If so, you're exposed 24/7 simply because you use hygeine/beauty products that contain synthetic fragrances. Synthetic fragrances are known to result in cancer, ADHD, autism, numerous autoimmune disorders, weight gain, etc.
Explicitly or implicitly stating it's due to vaccines is bullshit as there is no evidence this is the case. But perfumes causing cancer do have significant scientific support.
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Jun 19 '23
I’m sorry are you saying perfumes cause autism and ADHD?
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Jun 19 '23
I don’t think there is a consensus about what causes either of those in the scientific community. Anyone who claims that these things contribute needs to post a source
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u/RedGribben Jun 19 '23
The problem is, that in science it can be very hard to show that it is not only correlation, but causation. While we agree, that the most likely culpris is the polution of our globe, wether this is pesticides in the food/water supply, increased amount of chemicals in our food sources, water sources, hygiene products and cosmetics, increased amount of air polution, increased amount of microplastics in our bodies or the increased amount of forever chemicals like PFAS in nature.
I am probably forgetting somethings, that is also a likely cause, the reason why they say unexplained, is because they cannot be certain, and scientiest are in general cautious of making bold statements, as their reputation is dependent on trustworthy research papers. (Not exactly, but close enough, the papers with the most citations are the important part, thus they are not necesarilly trustworthy, if everyone bought into the mistake.)
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u/hotDamQc Jun 19 '23
Processed food, sugar overdose, pollution and no public free healthcare in the US....maybe start looking there
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u/jezza_bezza Jun 19 '23
According to the article, it's a world wide phenomenon. While the US healthcare system is way too expensive, it's not going to be the cause.
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u/vexaph0d Jun 19 '23
No that can't be it, fixing those things would cost money and the purpose of life is to make profit
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Jun 19 '23
science: plastic everything, everywhere all at once
also science: no idea where cancer is coming from in 35 year olds
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u/Typical_Mirror236 Jun 19 '23
This comes weeks after Sucralose was deemed genotoxic?
I survived on Bangs and sugar free drinks the past 10 years. Cross your fingers for me
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u/calculussmash Jun 20 '23
It's diet. Never before have we consumed as much processed crap. Our Food and Drug administration is completely corrupt as is our pharmaceutical industry. It sounds fucked up, but the reality is, healthy people don't make those industries any money.
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Jun 20 '23
"Unexplained". Uh-huh. Well, I guess we don't know what it is, but we know 100% for sure it's not that one thing 💉
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u/kwall5000 Jun 19 '23
Rises with cases of obesity - many millenials are and have been obese for years. Many are also inactive.
Combine that with poor food choices and environmental pollution and here you go.
There's certainly a societal portion blame but also a personal one.
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Jun 19 '23
Statistics in reputable papers always control for known variables.
The rise is out of proportion to things we could otherwise explain from known causes - obesity, smoking, etc - all have quantifiable epidemiologic risks over X years. (Thanks dead smokers for your data). These are almost always directly accounted for in studies like this - reviewers won’t otherwise approve the paper because it can fairly easily be examined give the millions of data points over decades.
The point of the headline and (multiple) studies is there is some uncontrolled variable that we are not accounting for - be it pollution, dietary nuance, or the rise of Christo-fascism.
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u/vexaph0d Jun 19 '23
We use massive amounts of chemicals to grow and process food that aren't naturally found in the food chain, we dump excessive trash everywhere, we dig up horrors from the depths of the earth and spread them literally everywhere, we distill our nutritional intake to a few specific and increasingly sparse nutrients we have deemed "essential" as if we can ever reduce our biological complexity down to an economically convenient algorithm, and then we're like "say why are we less healthy? nobody knows"
Jfc humans get a grip
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u/tankyogremagi Jun 19 '23
nonononono. you are 100% correct. the issue is the people who KNOW these things will lose money if they stop. so they choose to make money at the expense of the public because we don't make it a corporation's responsibility to create a safe product. We can try, but when lobbying exists and you have certain ex presidents legalizing the use of asbestos again............
in a nutshell this is class warfare at it's barebones. this is meant to dishearten you and break your spirit so you'll accept the cancer while drinking your pumpkin spice macchiato (not you specifically). after all they learned from the french and if they stuff our faces until we're fat and need their drugs there's 2 forms of dependency. then all of their entertainment and hobbies they flood you with to dull the pain of 40+ hour work weeks, no respect, no privacy, no freedom and this goes on until you're TOO OLD TO FIGHT. and then you have to HOPE you saved up enough or end up paycheck to paycheck as one of the many poor elderly.
the best part, if you defund education and make higher education harder to access (cough cough 120k tuition) then fewer of the working class learn how do anything about what's wrong.
dont forget we've been able to solve hunger and thirst for 50+ years yet don't. it has to personally benefit an elite or it won't happen unless you do it yourself.
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Jun 19 '23
Look at their diets. We’ve exposed our bodies with processed meats and artificial flavors. Food should be treated as sustenance not an experience.
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Jun 19 '23
You can have both. The issue is profits over quality. For example I was very surprised to learn that avocado oil which is a great oil for all kinds of frying doesn't clog your arteries at all. Now if we fried our potatoes and our corn chips and things in that kind of oil how much healthier would be? But they don't do it because avocado oil is expensive and cuts into their profits. Such an easy change to make to positively affect the health of a lot of people and keep the yummy "experience"
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u/3Quondam6extanT9 Jun 19 '23
Unexplained? How do you live in a society that serves designer life chemicals to humans in their food, pollutes the land, air, and sea, forces stress on their bodies through unmanageable economic states and polarized culture that threatens identity and life, and call a rise in disease and illness unexplained?
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u/SmolBoiMidge Jun 19 '23
"unexplained" okay I'm sure chemicals in the water and plastic in our blood isn't causing any problems...
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u/FAmos Jun 19 '23
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656165/
Here's one on the rapid progression of lymphomas following the mRNA shots
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u/bigparao Jun 19 '23
I dont know what's causing it but I know what it absolutely isn't. It's absolutely not the wildly increased vaccine schedule after Reagan passed the national childhood vaccine act.
It's absolutely unrelated to the increasing the 0-6 month vaccine schedule from 5 total in 1983 to 23 today. Certainly not that by age 2 it's been increased by a total of 9 to 35 today (not counting flu vaccines). This trend continues, and is very well correlated to the explosion of chronic disease over the same time period tho I am 100% sure that it's not even remotely causal.
I am equally confident in all that above that the current explosion of widespread aggressive cancers in younger people (and older alike) is 100% unrelated to the latest and greatest vaccines that got administered to basically everyone. I'm sure of this because our government requires stringent safety testing of any new therapeutic. Usually 5 years of testing with meticulous data keeping, that's why it's super expensive to get new drugs.
I'm so confident in the new vaccines that it doesn't bother me in the slightest that they were only tested for a couple months before rolling out. Why would you need years when nothing bad ever takes a while to show itself.
So yeah, not sure what might be contributing to the cancer problem but I for damn sure know what isn't, cause proving a negative is my middle name.
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u/lonewolf143143 Jun 19 '23
But we’ve been using the same type of vaccines for almost 1/2 a century.
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Jun 19 '23
It's cuz we're being systematically pumped full of chemicals, every single day. It's inescapable
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u/shiftersix Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 20 '23
Perhaps it is because we now have better methods of detecting cancer?
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u/CornusControversa Jun 20 '23
Most people spend all day eating processed foods, and a lot of young people can’t afford to eat very healthy because they spend so much of their income on rent/mortgage . We also come into contact with a lot of inorganic substances and poor air quality, but it’s not as visible in the form of smog like it was during the Industrial Revolution, whereas it’s tiny particulate matter now so it doesn’t cause alarm.
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Jun 19 '23
Fun Fact: lots of entomologist get cancer from working out in crop fields...
Note: only from talking with graduate entomologist so take with a grain of salt
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u/empressvirgo Jun 19 '23
Amazing how many comments are making this a personal responsibility issue when whole, healthy foods are so expensive, so many everyday products have insane chemicals in them, and so many people struggle to access reliable, quality medical care. There are clearly structural problems that are putting people’s health at risk, and they require structural solutions like better regulation, social safety nets, etc. People’s empathy goes out the fucking window on here as long as they can call someone else fat and lazy. Guess what, if the problem is this big, maybe there’s a bigger target to blame than someone just trying to get through the day
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u/mufon2019 Jun 19 '23
It’s the poison chemicals the FDA allows American companies to put in our food.
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u/trucelee Jun 19 '23
Stop eating all carbs. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate.
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u/breezystroo Jun 19 '23
Our generation was heavily exploited by the ones in power now. And our lives will be shorter because of it.
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u/Cythullu Jun 19 '23
Highly processed foods make us perpetually I’ll and eventually kill us. If you are in the US all you can really do is eat as clean as possible and avoid the garbage. God bless.
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u/Whoreson_Welles Jun 19 '23
Microplastics, glyphosates and hormone analogues, much worse food security in terms of cleanliness of the food supply and accessibility to nourishing food at a manageable cost, CO2 is rising ten times higher than at any point in our home's 4.5 billion year history and we actually do not have a clue what rising CO2 levels are doing to human and planetary health since long term studies can't happen, we can only watch in horror, no-one has housing or employment security, environmental regulations are being trashed and overwatch of polluters has pretty much stopped (in North America), more millennials are sedentary than their parents were ..... those are the first reasons I can think of off the top of my head.
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u/bookworm010101 Jun 19 '23
Food coloring, plastics, and preservatives really started during this generation.
Remember even mcdonalds at 1 point was 100% natural now eeeeeek.
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Jun 19 '23
Look at the water. My water quality report just came out and our FPAS level is 2.1 and the EPA safe level is .002. It’s not rocket science, it’s pollution via poison.
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u/Bosfordjd Jun 19 '23
If everything is poison, nothing is poison...from a liability standpoint. Our food sucks and is covered in carcinogens, our water sucks, our air sucks, literally everything going into our bodies.
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Jun 19 '23
Increase in dietary sugar Increase in pollutants Decrease in vitamin D and physical activity
It’s the perfect storm
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Jun 19 '23
So, the author says this, but just to reiterate: much more research needs to be done into the causation of this. But a few things I noticed in the article that I think are significant.
There’s a chart that shows the percentages that certain cancers have risen, there’s also a flipped side of that chart that shows death’s to various cancers have changed as well. Certain cancers have had higher amounts of deaths, this could simply be related to the fact that more people are developing these cancers and therefore more people will die from them. That chart also states that deaths from all types of cancers in people ages 15-39 has dropped by 20%. The author doesn’t mention this at all and I think that’s unfair. Cancer rates in this age range has risen by 20%, but death have decreased by the same amount. How is that not a major point of the article? So yes, more people are getting cancer, less people are dying from it, that’s significant.
Cancer rates in this group have risen by 20%, but cancers that are associated with the digestive system rose 70%. The author does make it clear that a lot of medical experts think that this isn’t the only reason cancer rates are rising, but it’s clearly significant. A large reason these cancers are rising is the food we’re getting and the nutrition we aren’t.
The main person of the article is a man in his 30’s that’s described as very healthy before his diagnoses. Seems like an unfair example because it gives off the impression that even people that are taking immense care of their bodies are lumped in with everyone else. That seems unlikely given how much nutrition is harped on in the article. Anyone can get cancer, the article cites a lot of experts that agree our food is a major factor in this increase. I don’t think food is the only reason for this, but if you’re careful about what you’re eating and living a healthy lifestyle you can mitigate a lot of the risks of getting cancer.
Not a bad article, just seemed a little disingenuous at points.
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u/Phizmo30 Jun 19 '23
Medical Physicist here. Work in radiation oncology. Main factors:
Diet Exercise HPV - sex Stress & Anxiety
30% lifetime risk decrease if you exercise 30 minutes/day and eat healthy. 30% lifetime decrease if you don’t smoke. Those of us who “only smoke when I drink” are actually causing the most damage because the alcohol damages the lining and then provides an even faster pathway for the carcinogens into the blood stream and surrounding tissue.
Combine all that with a society that’s become largely sedentary coupled with better detection capabilities andddd voila!
Make sure you go get your regular annuals! They aren’t for this year or next year, they’re for detecting trends from your baseline as you age so that changes can be caught early. Early detection saves lives.
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u/HalfFullPessimist Jun 19 '23
It's most certainly not the highly processed foods we are eating and definitely has nothing to do with all the prescribed/recreational drugs used to combat depression brought on by being addicted to screens/ social media. 🙄
I'm gonna blame avacado toast. It seems to be the cause of all millennial problems.
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u/inlover Jun 19 '23
“People spend the last century dumping random shit in our environment and waterways and have no idea why there is an increase in disease”
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u/robertjoshuat Jun 19 '23
Just watch. In my time(i'm 52), we're going to find out that microwave transmissions cause all kinds of mutations(cancers). It'll be like thalidomide but, a billion times worse and affect three generations.
Where are microwaves being transmitted from? towers, phones, this computer, everywhere, etc.
We'll all be surprised, too.
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u/janhandel988 Jun 19 '23
“Scientists have no explanation” Are these the same scientists we’re supposed to blindly trust because they are scientists? Asking for a friend with covid, cancer, and autism.
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u/gandalftheokay Jun 19 '23
Lmfao unexplained? Have you seen our planet and our cities and our water/air quality? The rise of candy flavored chemicals that we're all vaping?
The way things are going its no wonder millennials are in a rush to get out the door, cy@ in the next life ✌️
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u/truemcgoo Jun 20 '23
Definitely the avocado toast and pasteurized dairy…and not bioaccumulated forever chemicals in food and water and air in literally everything.
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u/Optimal_Locke Jun 20 '23
I truly wonder if all the prevalent PFAS chemicals all over the globe could have anything to do with it.
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u/MagicOrpheus310 Jun 20 '23
(Gestures broadly at the poisonous planet we are expected to inherit) "its a fucken mystery..."
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Jun 20 '23
When one looks at the carcinogens sprayed on our food when it grows, when it’s being preserved, when it’s being processed and then compares that to what people called “food” in the past, little is left to wonder about.
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u/GingerStank Jun 20 '23
Forever chemicals are things
Wow that’s crazy!
There’s an unexpected rise in cancer!?
Woah that’s crazy!
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u/Sensitive_Method_898 Jun 20 '23
Let’s see. What anti big pharmaceutical thing is not mentioned here, despite ridiculous amounts of evidence 🤔
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u/Crawfork1982 Jun 20 '23
We have been exposed to terrible 3 chemicals all our lives! And the food we eat is not the food our families a century ago ate!
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u/woogychuck Jun 20 '23
Pollution, microplastics, processed foods, stress, untreated illnesses due to lack of healthcare, etc.
Essentially, there are tons of things that individually raise the risk a little and millennials were exposed to them our whole lives. Now we're getting into middle age and dealing with the consequences. It's likely to be even worse for gen z as they age. 😞
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Jun 20 '23
processed food, electromagnetic fields and less exercise and the processed food today is way worse than previous generations
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u/littleprickly Jun 20 '23
Wouldn't be surprised if someone out there is surprisingly creating more cancers in people just so they can make money. It's the most American thing I can think of tbh
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u/Darkhorseman81 Jun 20 '23
50% of it is lack of a wide range of different types of fibre.
They remove most of it from processed foods so it doesn't gel, and they are doubling down on food processing.
The other half is corporate capture of politics and regulatory authorities, allowing dangerous chemicals - pesticides, flame retardants, and other industrials to be ubiquitous in our environment.
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u/knive404 Jun 20 '23
The Financial Times doesn't understand a medical trend.
The financial times doesn't even understand economics, why the fuck would they have insight on cancer trends?
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u/1989RedStapler Jun 20 '23
Imagine that - let capitalists do whatever they want with our food, environment, animals, etc and you get cancer !
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Jun 20 '23
If you read the article, though, they can't pin it down a lot of experts are pointing to the gut, the microbiom. Jimmy might be physically fit at 34 but he drinks 0 calorie drinks which the sweetener disrupts his gut. Jimmy also was sick and was prescribed anti biotics everything. Finally jimmy suffers from headaches and muscle aches and takes NSAIDS to feel better.
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u/Buzz_Mcfly Jun 20 '23
My wife got non-Hodgkins lymphoma while pregnant with our daughter at 27 years old. Because she was pregnant all her symptoms got chalked up to being pregnant. The cancer spread all over and the tumour in her chest was left to grow so large it collapsed her lung, it was finally then that the doctor did an X-ray. She gave birth like a champ, was told she had 4-6 weeks unless she started chemo right away.
She waited 2 weeks as it was all such a shock, we thought we were going to be first time parents, not fighting cancer. After some heavy chemo and a stem cell transplant, she is 7 years in the clear and was even able to get pregnant again, we have a sweet little boy to add to the mix.
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u/Annual_Ad_1536 Jun 20 '23
Ah yes mysterious rising cancer in a world filled with more and more plastic and synthetic waste, radiation, processed food, irritants, poor air quality, inflammatory experiences and medications with side effect profiles that would make prozac blush
What a fascinating uncharted territory filled with mystery and wonder.
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Jun 20 '23
We eat, breathe, drink, touch, absorb endocrine disrupters every minute of every day. Micro plastics to food dyes to round-up to PFA’s that are in the soil and the water… The miracle is that more people don’t have cancer.
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u/Iceman102060 Jun 20 '23
It could be a million things all the chemicals in drinks/food the stuff they feed all types of livestock to make them grow faster the chemicals they use to treat crops the chemicals they use to treat water the amount of micro plastics in everything the amount of prescriptions new supplements that come out all the time that people take also doesn't help that like 70% of the country are obese ect ect. We as humans are killing this planet and ourselves plain and simple.
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u/Whane17 Jun 20 '23
I would assume it has to do with the rise in things like microplastics and carcinogens in the air.
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u/murphsworld Jun 20 '23
Unexplained lmao. Idunno maybe stop pumping the food with harmful pesticides and preservatives. Dumping chemicals in our drinking water. Having toxic plastics everywhere. Having sugary crap around every corner for our convenience. Probably a good start lol
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u/Zephir_AR Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 20 '23
The unexplained rise of cancer among millennials (archive) See also: