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In 2020 1,603,844 cancer cases were reported[1]. If, as your link states, "More than 684,000 obesity-associated cancers occur in the United States each year",
by SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
In 2020 1,603,844 cancer cases were reported[1]. If, as your link states, "More than 684,000 obesity-associated cancers occur in the United States each year", then your "just look for fat people" metric is missing about a million people, more than half of all cancers cases.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/index.htm
- Pannoniae 3y agoA 50% rate isn't that bad though? Like, I don't think anyone claims that you can't get cancer while not being obese, it's just that obesity is an increased risk factor and needs more attention. As another comment said above, many people ignore the signs of their body, choosing to just suppress them with medicating themselves or ignore them entirely; so they usually don't notice when something is off.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoMost obese people still won't get cancer. And "something is off" doesn't have any reason to be cancer. It's probably any number of other things, and even if you're not obese you can still have things feel off. And there are cancers that you don't necessarily feel off for until they are really far along. If anything these arguments are proof we can't rely on feeling off and we need reliable tests for this, because 99.9% of the time, even if you're in amazing shape, "I feel off" isn't cancer.