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Colon cancer is rising in young people and scientists got a clue about why

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nikolay

8d ago

1 reply

https://archive.ph/ClY7c

OutOfHere

7d ago

1 reply

I am getting a "Secure Connection Failed" error.

diogenes_atx

7d ago

1 reply

What is your DNS sever? You might try Cloudflare for DNS (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1), it has good privacy and works with archive.is

OutOfHere

7d ago

2 replies

I will never use Cloudflare. I use NextDNS.

jtokoph

7d ago

I’m also using NextDNS and haven’t been able to load any of these archive domains in at least a few days now

diogenes_atx

7d ago

Why are you so opposed to CloudFlare? It's not perfect, but definitely better than Google and most ISP's... You might try an experiment to see if you are able to reach the archive.ph domain with CloudFlare, if only to see if DNS is the problem.

Bender

7d ago

2 replies

Peoples exposure to E. Coli is not new. Something else changed in the last few years. What could it be?

4gotunameagain

7d ago

1 reply

Average number of sexual partners has skyrocketed for sure..

Diet and UPFs as well ? There are so many things that have changed.

Bender

7d ago

1 reply

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?

4gotunameagain

7d ago

1 reply

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.

Bender

6d ago

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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.

taschda

6d ago

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.

jmclnx

7d ago

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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.

Bender

7d ago

1 reply

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.

moritzwarhier

7d ago

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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

Bender

7d ago

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I do get it. People have not been eating fresh foods since at least the 1970's. Fast food has been prevalent and popular since the 70's.

Something else changed in the last few years. One of these things is not like the other.

moritzwarhier

7d ago

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.

jmclnx

7d ago

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.

hypefi

7d ago

1 reply

A new object has been introduced that is near the area that emits EMFs constantly, guess what it is

nh23423fefe

7d ago

2 replies

how does non-ionizing radiation produce harm?

robocat

7d ago

Through the nocebo effect.

hypefi

7d ago

potential quantum biology effects

tsoukase

7d ago

1 reply

Possible factors: (micro)plastics, pesticides, excessive calories, excess fat or salt and, the elephant in the room, anxiety.

All impossible to test in a highly controlled environment.

fucjdn184

7d ago

1 reply

Or the other even bigger elephant, immune dysfunction due to repeated infections with SARS-Cov2.. wild how a large gray mammal hides in plain sight

tsoukase

6d ago

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.

aixpert

7d ago

Are we talking red bull age or younger?

timonoko

8d ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882250#45884583

OutOfHere

7d ago

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.

JumpCrisscross

8d ago

“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.”

Study: https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client...

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