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Addictive nut is driving record rates of cancer
- dasKrokodil 2y agoI wonder whether the active ingredient in the betel nuts is the same substance that also causes the cancer? Because if not, maybe the problem could be solved by extracting or sythesizing the active ingredient.
- HermanMartinus 2y agoIt has been synthesised. It's a mild stimulant but has a not-so-great toxicity profile. Probably best to leave it with the fibre you need to chew through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecoline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecoline
- MrJagil 2y agoI’ve had these. It’s a confusing mess to chew, with chalk and leaves and nuts, but I really enjoyed the (small) high.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoI wanted to try some when I visited my gf in Taiwan more than a decade ago. She looked at me like I'm crazy and that ended there. I did try kava in small Fijian island with no running water. It didn't do anything to me, but one of the guys there said "It's like a fine New Zealand wine"...
- vfclists 2y agoWhat are the stats which justify the "record rates" in the title?
- hulitu 2y agoit is a newspaper. It gives no information whatsoever. Just speculations.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoIt's a web page. It has links. You can click on them for more information.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoLink from article: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21660 https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac... Figure 22: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/30b954fe-5f8d-42e9-918c-928ad42ad8c6/caac21660-fig-0023-m.jpg https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/30b954... A less exciting title might be: "highest rates of oral cancers found in place where people habitually chew known carcinogen".
- jazz9k 2y agoThis has been known to cause cancer for decades.
- GuestFAUniverse 2y agoWhy that finger pointing? In general the west eats a lot of sugar, or sugar is added to all kind of products. And it's health crippling in many ways. I don't see any warning labels. Yeah, take the bezel nuts away and replace it with energy drinks... Seems hypocritical to me.
- snakeyjake 2y agoThe only connection in that article to "the west" is a brief reference to two American doctors, one a surgeon who worked in Papua New Guinea and the second a cancer researcher at the University of Hawaii. The bulk of the article is about the struggles Papua New Guinea (and other non-western places) are having with an addictive substance. I can find no mention of energy drinks in the article.
- billy99k 2y ago"Yeah, take the bezel nuts away and replace it with energy drinks... Seems hypocritical to me." These nuts have been known to cause cancer for decades. It's much different than products, like energy drinks, that indirectly might cause health issues.