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Colon 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 probabl
by adrr 3y ago
Colon 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.