As you can see from the chart below, this has increased since the late 1990s for folks aged 15-39. Personally, I think our food is the culprit. For decades, it has continued to be ultra-processed, and all sea salt now contains plastic. We use pink salt from the Himalayas.
His team has found connections between early-onset colorectal cancer risk and obesity, consuming a lot of sugar-sweetened beverages and physical inactivity. But those studies don’t prove a direct cause.
EDIT: It looks like WSJ removes the graphic overlay for image link embeds. I can’t get back in since I don’t have a subscription. If you do, reference the link and you’ll see.
Definitely the food! The young girls I work with eat takis and so much processed foods that one has IBS and still eats Taco Bell and McDonald’s. I remember my husband’s oncologist saying gastric cancer was on the rise but for them it’s more moolah!
The chemicals used today is a sin, but people want perfect fruit and vegetables. As kids, picking apples off the tree with a worm hole, we just cut it out and munched away.
I know much of the flour years ago was radiated to kill the larvae. Not sure if they still do that or not.
I wonder if they see a higher rise in the city living areas. Rural people tend to buy fresh produce off the farm, when in season, then from the stores.
And the bioengineered ingredients is in almost everything! I try to buy from local farmers when I can but I’ve cut out a lot of stuff I used to eat and started fasting more.
I get an email update from the GMO project. It’s a non profit that does a lot of research to scope out all the foods with GMO. They have a pretty extensive list of foods on their website. Their emblem is also on many food packages. It’s the little butterfly.
