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“A new study published in Nature has identified a strong link between childhood exposure to colibactin and colorectal cancer in patients under the age of 40.”
Diet. When I was younger than 16, we and everyone had home cooked meals every day, no choice. Places like McDonalds did not start showing up in my area when I was 12 or 13.
As time went on, divorce rates increased and/or both spouses were forced to work full time, meals gravitated towards fast and/or ultra-processed food. Why ? The parents had no time to cook.
So here we are.
I wish the article had rates based upon household income too. I kind of expect the children of the very rich is avoiding this trend because they could have servants/hired caregivers cooking for them.
That's an interesting idea however McDonalds has been around since 1940 even if it has not been available to you for very long. I think it must be something else.
While the comment is phrased like it could say that, I don't think that you are responding to the right point.
The point was that people eat fewer freshly prepared meals than before. And while I'm on the go, so I won't research a study, I'm pretty sure this is true.
Additional points:
- street food in Western countries is never really nourishing, almost exclusively fat, sugar, meat protein and processed white bread
- quality of fast food has gone down the drain on top of that, at least here
- not enough daily physical activity
- lots of stressful jobs without physical activity
Might be true, but I don't think malnutrition, sedentary lifestyle etc have peaked in the 70s.
If these factors are perfectly controlled for, maybe you're right. It would be stupid for me to further engage in discussion about it though, without having read science about this.
There are other things we know about though, for example an increase in microplastics intake.
Plus do not forget, the article said the "damage" happens in the first 10 years of a child's life. So people born in the 70s are also seeing an increase in colon cancer.
BTW, for my main comment, I am probably in the top 15% of age distribution of people commenting here.
Average number of sexual partners has skyrocketed for sure..
In the last few years? I would suggest it's much lower than it was in the 60's and 70's during the free love movements and other related movements. Prior to the 80's there was a lot more unprotected sex prior to the aids epidemic. Porn with a lot of body hair basically exploded when VHS tapes were created and people experimented a lot more.
Diet has certainly gotten worse. Most of the artificial crap was being introduced in the early 70's with a trailing 10 year lag on T2D increase but that has definitely gotten worse with time. What big change was introduced into the diet in the last few years?
I highly doubt that when they are talking about a rise in colon cancer they are talking in relationship to the 60s or 70s. And what does porn with body hair has to do with anything ? Your reply seems ideologically motivated.
I like the idea of this being ideologically motivated. To find what that may be I think we need to figure out what has changed in the last few years and then risk-rank each item to get started.
The average number of sexual partners has changed considerably over the decades. Baby boomers (1946-1964) report an average of 11 partners, while Generation X (1965-1980) has an average of 10 partners. Millennials (1981-1996) have a lower average of 8 partners. The lower average number of sexual partners could lead to bowel cancer. Joking aside. I would suggest that the world has become a bitter place. Water quality, pollution, microplastics, air quality, factory farming (meat production in general, drug distribution, multi-resistant germs). Average meat consumption per day is rising. Everything is getting worse because humans are causing climate change, suffering of living beings and nature and refusing to change the status quo.
Dysbiosis deserves 100x more attention as a cause of diseases. Beyond the gut, it even is a factor for heart disease. From its pov, we live in the dark ages.
Moreover, with increased antibiotic resistance, it could become harder to treat.
IMHO immune suppression or conversion is the rhino in the zoo. Sure there are many other wild mammals that are less heavy like nuclear and sun radiation, air pollution, sedentary way of life even electronic device usage. All with intermingling mechanisms that are buried in the cell division cycle.
