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Is there a lower prevalence of cancer in cultures that fast?
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
Is there a lower prevalence of cancer in cultures that fast?
- wigster 2y agoor in Inuit people who i imagine don't get much fresh fruit except a few berries?
- lambdaba 2y agoeverywhere, cancer & chronic disease rates go up as diets get westernized
- lm28469 2y agoYep, that's because most cancers are lifestyle related, remove alcohol, tobacco and bad diets/obesity and you remove 75% of cancers. https://www.oatext.com/which-environment-makes-cancer.php https://www.oatext.com/which-environment-makes-cancer.php
- lambdaba 2y agoObviously yes, so is most chronic disease, but bring up people being healed by lifestyle & diet intervention and prepare for relentless attacks from both doctors and laypeople.
- cortic 2y agoIsn't that just selection bias, as diets get westernized so does medical care and so we detect more diseases..
- lambdaba 2y agothis is even counter to mainstream medical opinion
- unsupp0rted 2y agoLife expectancy also goes up as lives get westernized, so people live long enough to become adults and die from cancer, rather than Malaria, diarrhea, etc
- lambdaba 2y agorates of cancer are going up in younger people nowadays
- adamredwoods 2y agoDiet is not the only factor for cancer. There are children who die of cancer, and there are smokers and drinkers that live to 99.
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- lm28469 2y ago> cultures that fast? Are there any culture that fast in a way that would matter here ? Most of fasting traditions are mostly performative. The average joe probably fasted more by default a few thousand years ago than most people do now
- steve_adams_86 2y agoI don't know about that, but there does appear to be a tradeoff between nutrition and fertility. When you eat less, you're less fertile. When you're less fertile, you live longer. A lot of what appears to allow us to live longer is lower rates of cancer, but the data I've seen there isn't rock solid and it isn't something I've dug deeply into. I only mention it because it's certainly studied and a question worth pursuing, with very interesting papers available if you look. Something I read recently was about eunuchs living something like 25% longer than intact counterparts. However, the data was limited (15 each of eunuchs and intact as I recall). There were very few confounding factors, however. Really interesting stuff.