Re: Large Rise in Cancers in YOUNG People Causing Concern

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On 2024-06-03, 26xh.0717 <26xh.0718@e6t4y.net> wrote:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13486435/Britain-cancer-timebomb-poor-diet-gut-health.html
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Britain facing cancer timebomb in the under-50s due to poor
diet and gut health - and ultra-processed food could be to blame
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   The DM "health" editor is now convinced the evil
   awful "ultra-processed food" is the cause of all
   doom ....
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   Well, we've been sucking that down since the 1950s,
   in plastic dishes/cups where you could taste the
   plasticizing agents. Ask an older person what
   "tastes like plastic" means.
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   As for "bad diet" - almost EVERYBODY has had a
   "bad diet" across all human history.
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   This new mystery problem affects a much younger
   crowd.
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   MIGHT be a virus. MIGHT be some nasty club drug
   that was popular 20 years ago. Might be tofu.
   I suppose studies ARE in progress, might find
   a common thread, but the conclusions aren't
   there yet. Until then expect everything that
   social/dietary fanatics HATE to be blamed.

People in the past have had a deficient diet, but not necessarily that
contains manufactured ingredients and other additives.  There is a
difference between a diet being poor simply due to under nutrition,
than one bad because it passes materials through the alimentary canal
for which we did not evolve to process.

The taste of plastic in food has always concerned me.  Whether it be
the taste of plastic in food that was microwaved in a container, water
in a plastic bottle, or just the strange taste of ice from the
freezer.  I've refused to eat food because of a funny plastic taste
that others thought was no issue.

But processed food is indeed a problem.  Less and less fresh product
and meat, and more canned and processed stuff that is far from what it
originally was.