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Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

There's no way it could be true that cancer is higher for under-50s than those around 65. The risk is tremendously higher at 65.

I will say that in the 2020s we will see some bizarre health data, given that we went about 14 months where people couldn't get routine screenings or important-but-non-emergency procedures done. Hospitals were reserved for COVID patients, which was a huge mistake. Neglecting routine health checks and procedures can be a death sentence for those over 50.

Some of those 2020-21 COVID policies were insane. Imagine not being able to go in to see your mom taking her final breath, and not being allowed to have an outdoor funeral, but Gavin Newsom can eat indoors at the French Laundry at the same time?
I am not going to deny you the pleasure of diving in on your own.

Nothing to do with covid.
I know this has been a long trend. Since around 1950, every cluster of kids born had a higher incidence of cancer than previous decade. It’s continued. 1960 less than 1970 and so forth.
I’ve read it’s on steroids now last decade.

When I look at all the things they think it could be, I always come back to obesity and diet. It’s worst among the digestive system cancers. Obesity just raises the risk of all cancers so much, and it’s chicken and egg with diet and what’s in food that it’s hard to parse out.

But I’m with you on plastic because when I try to think about what’s different, we are always drinking out of plastic water bottles all day. I actually went back a few years ago to keeping glass bottles in my refrigerator with cold tap water. I’m still out and about and drinking out it plastic, but not 10 times a day. All those cases of Dasani or Aquafina sitting on a loading dock in Florida or Texas in 90 degree heat before getting shipped.

I’m not sold it’s the cause, because the trend started before we drank out of plastic all day, it’s pure conjecture, but would explain the late rapid increase the last decade and the water out of glass tastes better anyway.

I think it’s just weight/additives in food as most likely culprit. All those pics from 1930s, no fat people and way way less cancer.

For a good while they thought it was alcohol. Gen X loves to drink, but with it increasing among young set rapidly, they hardly drink at all.

Never good for pancreas and liver, but obviously not the impetus for the trend.