A global epidemic of cancer among people younger than 50 could be emerging

[Bboystyle]

Not Saying You’re Wrong Cause I’m Sure There’s Some Truth In There But I Feel Like I See More Fit People Than Fat People Get Cancer Now That I Think About It lol

Also It’s Crazy You Never See The Morbidly Obese Get Cancer

I dont know how true this is but being fit doesnt mean they are healthy on the inside. U can eat like shyt, still lose weight and look fit.


I remember a commercial i saw as a kid that stuck with me for the rest of my life. The slogan said, "a heart attack doesnt care what u look like".

I use that line to all these people out here eating like shyt but still look great

 

[Althalucian]

I had a good friend die of colon cancer in 2020, exact same age as me and just a year after his first son was born. A few years before that one of my mentors from college who was just a few years older than me died of stomach cancer at 34. She had two little girls.




Ogino says the spike is due to an unhealthy stew of risk factors that are probably working together, some which are known and others that need to be investigated.

He notes that many of these risks have established links to cancer like obesity, inactivity, diabetes, alcohol, smoking, environmental pollution and Western diets high in red meat and added sugars, not to mention shift work and lack of sleep.



I mean, it's all right there. Neither of my friends who died were obese/inactive but they both ate a lot of red meat and "rich" foods in general.

Right. I strongly believe the difference in sleep amount and quality between younger and older generations because of technology keeping younger generations up is killing us; bad and poor sleep is increasing obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Younger generations are practically one big experiment and it’s not looking so hot for us.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

My mom's 67 and is dying from cancer right now. Horrible. I'm in my 30's and this has definitely made me decide to make sure I get myself checked out regularly and get more frequent physicals and blood work.

I'm sorry man, mom's around the same age. She's been living with multiple myloma for about a decade now.

 

[Dave24]

I had a good friend die of colon cancer in 2020, exact same age as me and just a year after his first son was born. A few years before that one of my mentors from college who was just a few years older than me died of stomach cancer at 34. She had two little girls.




Ogino says the spike is due to an unhealthy stew of risk factors that are probably working together, some which are known and others that need to be investigated.

He notes that many of these risks have established links to cancer like obesity, inactivity, diabetes, alcohol, smoking, environmental pollution and Western diets high in red meat and added sugars, not to mention shift work and lack of sleep.



I mean, it's all right there. Neither of my friends who died were obese/inactive but they both ate a lot of red meat and "rich" foods in general.

I'm sorry about their deaths.



@Rhakim in your opinion how often would it be ok to eat red meat and "rich" foods in general?

 

[DrBanneker]

I am trying to follow the French government recommendations on alcohol:

10 drinks per week (drink there is 100 mL of wine, 12 oz of beer, and like 40 mL hard liquor), with no more than 2 drinks per day. Two days per week abstain.

Alcohol is implicated in more cancers but mostly mouth and throat. The crazy things from the research I have read are two-fold:

1) Alcohol itself is not a carcinogen and does not cause cancer. The likely cause are bacteria in the mouth and throat that can metabolize alcohol to acetaldehyde in the presence of oxygen which is a carcinogen. They found some support to using mouthwash after you are done drinking to lower the cancer risk since it washes the alcohol and kills the germs. Research also shows vinegar consumption lowers mouth/throat/GI risk.

2) Alcohol is weird in that quitting cold turkey doesn't lower your cancer risk for decades. Like, if you quit smoking, you will see lower risks after a few years. With alcohol, quitting completely won't put you in the same risk category as non-drinkers for almost 20 YEARS. They have no reason why the effects linger so long.

 

[Dave24]

I am trying to follow the French government recommendations on alcohol:

10 drinks per week (drink there is 100 mL of wine, 12 oz of beer, and like 40 mL hard liquor), with no more than 2 drinks per day. Two days per week abstain.

Alcohol is implicated in more cancers but mostly mouth and throat. The crazy things from the research I have read are two-fold:

1) Alcohol itself is not a carcinogen and does not cause cancer. The likely cause are bacteria in the mouth and throat that can metabolize alcohol to acetaldehyde in the presence of oxygen which is a carcinogen. They found some support to using mouthwash after you are done drinking to lower the cancer risk since it washes the alcohol and kills the germs. Research also shows vinegar consumption lowers mouth/throat/GI risk.

2) Alcohol is weird in that quitting cold turkey doesn't lower your cancer risk for decades. Like, if you quit smoking, you will see lower risks after a few years. With alcohol, quitting completely won't put you in the same risk category as non-drinkers for almost 20 YEARS. They have no reason why the effects linger so long.

I never drank alcohol except a few times in college. Never smoked at all.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I'm sorry about their deaths.



@Rhakim in your opinion how often would it be ok to eat red meat and "rich" foods in general?

In terms of health, I think red meat and "rich" foods are fine in moderation. It's not going to move the needle unless you're eating them several times the week. I'm just basing this on guessing not any study, but I'd bet if you had one beef night a week, and one or two days where you treated yourself to something else special that might be greasy or high-fat or whatever, but then ate healthy for your other meals, you'd be just fine.

The problem comes when Americans go out and eat some kind of greasy meat every day including beef 3+ times a week. Then they wonder why our heath disease and cancer rates are out of control.



That goes for regular meat though. "Cured" meats (bacon, sausage, pepperoni, salami, pastrami, balogna, etc.) and meats with charred fat (like BBQ) are an entirely different level of carcinogenous and shouldn't be eaten at all.