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points by redanddead 1 day ago | 0 comments

It’s the food

This isn’t some mystery, this isn’t happening in a vacuum. There are correlated trends like rising profits of the food industry, food becoming plasticized. Everyone’s fat now

[–] Alacart 1 day ago

How do you square that with this quote in the article?

"The data showed that the age-adjusted incidence rate fell from 55.2 per 100,000 in 2000 to 36.7 in 2022, then rose to 38.3 in 2023."

Were more people fat back in 2000? Was the food worse? Though I don’t really doubt that the food industry and trends like you mentioned do contribute, that stat also seems to directly contradict the hypothesis.

[–] redanddead 1 day ago

You and orangecat are using a false binary

That’s not how science works

Show me correlating graphs to the rise in colorectal cancer. There has to be a meta-analysis about this, my money is on food being a major contributing factor

[–] nostrademons 1 day ago

It's milk consumption:

https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/757_new-c...

No wait it's GMO use in corn grown in Texas:

https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/758_new-c...

No wait it's the popularity of the first name Devon:

https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/759_new-c...

No wait it's the number of postal service machine operators in Texas:

https://tylervigen.com/spurious/custom_correlation/760_new-c...

Pretty certain this isn't how science works either. Be careful mistaking correlation for causation, and in relying on intuitive hunches.

[–] fph 1 day ago

> my money is on food being a major contributing factor

That's not how science works either.

[–] orangecat 1 day ago

So the food got better from 2000 to 2022 and only since then has gotten worse?

[–] gwbas1c 1 day ago

It's not the food, it's from holding farts in too long.

[–] declan_roberts 1 day ago

The rise is global.

[–] teiferer 1 day ago

> It’s the food

Your sibling comment from 1 minute earlier:

> I am personally dealing with colon cancer, and one of the incredibly annoying things about the awful disease is the number of truly clueless people who use it to advance some culinary agenda they believe in without evidence.

[–] TFNA 1 day ago

The need to eat more fiber, and the dearth of fiber in most processed food, is something always mentioned in writing on colon cancer incidence by actual researchers. I could understand your post if one were posting in defence of some particular fad diet versus another fad diet, but saying merely "Its the food" is not in any way controversial.

[–] redanddead 1 day ago

There’s a lack of fiber

There’s an overconsumption of sugar

Sugar is awesome for cancer