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Amazing how everybody in this thread has posted their pet theories as to cause: - insufficient fibre - too much high fructose corn syrup - too much milk - t

by Pxtl 7mo ago

Amazing how everybody in this thread has posted their pet theories as to cause: - insufficient fibre - too much high fructose corn syrup - too much milk - too much citric acid - toxins and parasites (gut cleanse!) - washing chicken in chlorine (voiced as hypothetical) - ultra-marathoners - maybe their supplements and too much carbs or dehydration? - too much processed junk - vitamin and mineral deficiencies - radiation - insufficient veggies

gdulli 7mo ago
Throw return to office in there. You know it's coming eventually.
- Pxtl 7mo ago
  Call it: RTO causes colon cancer, or WFH causes colon cancer?
z9e 7mo ago
Yeah. Amazing how people on a forum are offering their opinions on something. Let’s point and laugh at them. /s I’m more amazed at the toxic (no pun intended) comments in this post. It seems HN isn’t a place to voice health theories.
- Guid_NewGuid 7mo ago
  There's a difference between informed speculation and uninformed speculation and most of the opinions so far fall into uninformed speculation where the writer implicitly blames those suffering for poor diet and lifestyle choices. In addition a lot of the speculation assumes something specific to the US where this is a trend in multiple countries, predominantly high income ones[0][1], but this speculation that it might be 'chemicals' is fairly dull to read and adds nothing. Why this cohort specifically? What commonalities are there between countries with an observed increase? If it's diet why would it only impact the younger cohort? [0]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(24)00600-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2... [1]: https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(21)00010-X/fulltext https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(21)00010-X/...
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- Pxtl 7mo ago
  "health theories" is how we got a nice new batch of measles outbreaks. I work with health research doctors and I've too much respect for them to humour "health theories". And they don't tell me how to do my job either.
Enginerrrd 7mo ago
Can we add microplastics to the list?

by Pxtl 7mo ago

gdulli 7mo ago

Throw return to office in there. You know it's coming eventually.

Pxtl 7mo ago
Call it: RTO causes colon cancer, or WFH causes colon cancer?

z9e 7mo ago

Yeah. Amazing how people on a forum are offering their opinions on something. Let’s point and laugh at them. /s I’m more amazed at the toxic (no pun intended) comments in this post. It seems HN isn’t a place to voice health theories.

Guid_NewGuid 7mo ago
There's a difference between informed speculation and uninformed speculation and most of the opinions so far fall into uninformed speculation where the writer implicitly blames those suffering for poor diet and lifestyle choices. In addition a lot of the speculation assumes something specific to the US where this is a trend in multiple countries, predominantly high income ones[0][1], but this speculation that it might be 'chemicals' is fairly dull to read and adds nothing. Why this cohort specifically? What commonalities are there between countries with an observed increase? If it's diet why would it only impact the younger cohort? [0]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(24)00600-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2... [1]: https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(21)00010-X/fulltext https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(21)00010-X/...
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Pxtl 7mo ago
"health theories" is how we got a nice new batch of measles outbreaks. I work with health research doctors and I've too much respect for them to humour "health theories". And they don't tell me how to do my job either.

Enginerrrd 7mo ago

Can we add microplastics to the list?