Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
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.
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