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Well we've seen hockey stick shaped population level increases in obesity[1] and colon cancer[2] in the last 40 or so years. Doesn't go to say it was caused by
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
Well we've seen hockey stick shaped population level increases in obesity[1] and colon cancer[2] in the last 40 or so years. Doesn't go to say it was caused by aspartame, but I don't think it can be argued we haven't seen population level effects of something.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obesity_adult_07_08.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obe...
[2] https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/68/10/1820.full.pdf https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/68/10/1820.full.pdf
- lotsofpulp 3y agoMaybe that something was the explosive availability of added sugar and other carbohydrates.
- morkalork 3y agoThere's a hilarious theory that it's due to the success of stamping out smoking. Nicotine being an appetite suppressant after all.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoMight be the dawning of the age of aquarius. Not really enough evidence in any direction right now.
- adrr 3y agoColon cancer is correlated to red meat and processed meat consumption. Processed meat(eg:bacon and lunch meat) is a known carcinogen and red meat is a probable carcinogen. We eat more eat meat than previous generations.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI don't think that's a convincing explanation of this type of broken trend line, unless there was some event in the early 2000s where everyone suddenly decided to eat 10 times as much processed meat...? It's also not solid logic. Granting that processed meat increases colon cancer risk, that does not go to demonstrate that an observed increase in cancer risk is caused by processed meat. That's affirming the consequent.
- adrr 3y agoColon cancer has been dropping since the 90s. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/colorect.html https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/colorect.html
- marginalia_nu 3y agoSee the reference above.