3 ms·
I would have thought that smoking cessation and earlier detection are - in a sense - medical advances? Medicine pushed for these, as the most effective ways of
by SideburnsOfDoom 8y ago
I would have thought that smoking cessation and earlier detection are - in a sense - medical advances?
Medicine pushed for these, as the most effective ways of fighting cancer. And it's working.
The same will hopefully happen to air pollution in cities, as a public health problem.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoon the "negative" side: we're living longer so odds of cancer increase, and we're obese. Or close to /above it.
- toper-centage 8y agoThe same will also happen due to diet changes in the next years. More and more people are severely cutting back on meat intake, specially smoked and processed meats, and it will likely have an impact on a multitude of types of cancer down the road.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoWhich types are caused by which meat though? I haven't seen a strong correlation between the two (unlike smoking and cancer). The charts on that article don't really show much change in most types of cancer over the past 50 years, despite changing diets and a higher availability of meat and processed foods.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sa...
- davinic 8y agoIt's not meat, it's sugar -- specifically fructose. See Dr. Robert Lustig's important work on this topic.