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I remember reading that the number one cancer ~100 years ago (e.g 1920's era) was stomach cancer. The thinking was that everyone ate pickled or canned foods du
by alexpotato 5y ago
I remember reading that the number one cancer ~100 years ago (e.g 1920's era) was stomach cancer.
The thinking was that everyone ate pickled or canned foods due to a lack of refrigeration. This in turn led to the stomach cancer.
I mention this in conversation when people talk about food being "better" back in the day.
It's also a reminder that "it's not the poison, it's the dose". Fermented/pickled foods are probably good for your gut biome up to some threshold but then can begin to have negative effects.
- helloworld11 5y agoI have to check sources on this but to my recollection, the biggest reason for stomach cancer historically has been infection by Helicobacter pylori, which for decades caused duodenal/stomach ulcers in many adults with doctors only treating the symptoms instead of the underlying cause (the bacteria), because they simply didn't know how common it was as a cause of this problem. After Barry Marshall and Robin Warren showed in 1982 how it caused peptic ulcers, treatments for ulcers changed and gastric cancer rates fell from what I remember. Those two doctors even won a nobel prize for their discovery.