The hypothesis that fatty foods are a direct cause of cancer has also been crumbling, along with the case for eating more fiber. The idea that red meat causes colon cancer is shrouded in ambiguity. Two meta-analyses published in 2011 reached conflicting conclusions — one finding a small effect and the other no clear link at all. If hamburgers are carcinogenic, the effect appears to be mild. One study suggests that a 50-year-old man eating a hefty amount of red meat — about a third of a pound a day — raises his chance of getting colorectal cancer to 1.71 percent during the next decade, from 1.28 percent. Spread over a population of millions, that would have an impact. From the point of view of an individual, it barely seems to matter.
It barely matters from the point of view of the “millions”, either. They’re not eating for each other.
My aunt and uncle died of colon cancer and they don’t fit this category. I had cancer in the neck of a polyp and neither do I.
There must be a lot of grant money for these studies. I also had cancer in a milk duct and I don’t fit any of the criteria for breast cancer either.
Moderation in all things was the family motto.
Cancer research and the supported “businesses” are the greatest scam on humanity since cAGW and the Useless Nations.Nothing more than raving leftards and kleptos.Barnum had no idea just how prophetic he was.
Oh.And you are so right,gellen.However moderation seems to have gone the way of common sense and buggy whip factories.
Ironically, the most promising research in cancer treatment now is to use high-fat ketogenic diets and drugs to reduce glucose (and glutamine) availability to cancer cells, which need enhanced glucose supply to survive.
FTFA: “eating a hefty amount of red meat – about a third of a pound a day”
Er, excuse me? 1/3rd of a pound is just over 5 oz. That’s a fairly normal sized hamburger at home. A 6 oz steak is pretty small; I can’t eat like I used to, but ten oz. is just a minimum for my steaks. A 4 oz slice off a normal size prime rib roast can almost, but not quite, be read through. This is ‘hefty’?! I think not.
BTW, please let me know if you’d like to purchase copies of my new embroidered T-shirt: “People live longer than vegans”.
“Spread over a population of millions, that would have an impact.”
Wouldn’t the impact be on health care costs which are shared by everybody? We may not eat for each other, but we do share the costs when others get sick. Or am I misunderstanding the article?
Yeah well, I don’t mind folks with opinions/choices counter to mine, or their expressing them……
I get surly when they try imposing them.
A lotta that goin’ around……
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“Wouldn’t the impact be on health care costs which are shared by everybody?”
Screw that.
You don’t get to force me into a collective and then demand that I make choices that consider the collective over my individual preferences.
So I read that 1/2 of lung cancer patients are non-smokers. (15% never smokers and 35% former smokers) Remembering back to the days of smoking rooms in schools, I wonder how much this differs from the population prone to lung cancer. I don’t think the common statement that smoking causes 85 % of cancer is at all accurate as close to 85 % of the population smokes or used to smoke. While I believe that smoking has some effect on cancer rates, the stats are all political.
So in other words if a family has hereditary tendencies for cancer or heart disease should their offspring be sterilized? Seeing how they may require more screening and could require more medical care, than taxpayers of the more pure variety?
Is it that hard to think like a progressive and just get to the “end” of a ideal?
Legislators hardly need the prodding you think they do for such stupid totalitarian ideas.
It’s even worse than that, Mugs.
If people have to eat to help cut the risk to collective Healthcare costs, what about all the other risky activities that folks do like skiing/snowboarding, riding bikes/skateboards/skates/motorcycles/quads, rock climbing, operating power tools,…well you get the idea.
There is no end to the risk in life and no end to the Left’s thirst for power and control over individuals in the name of the collective good.
What I see is a lot of this is due to genetics(DNA) more than what you eat and drink….////
I’m all for deep discounts on greasy food, smokes, booze and pot. The longer a person lives, the more it costs the health care and pension system. Make this song your life model and enjoy every vice or craving as long as it’s legal :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrIblTLbPVM
Smoke at least a pack a day or a couple good cigars, ride that bike without a helmet, play with real lawn darts, pour that glass of southern comfort and try to get all those STD’s without protection. If it tastes good, go ahead and eat it. Life is about quality not quantity and if you’re old enough to read this blog, there’s a good chance you’re not in your prime anymore. Why wait for Alzheimers or the dozen other hazards of old age that are the real drain on the medical system ? Remember that the only thing that will kill you long before your time is worrying about what will kill you in the first place. Stress is the biggest killer. Smoking relieves stress. See how simple this is ? A good cigar and a nice greasy steak, washed down with some fine southern comfort or wine will do wonders for your health. If not, why worry about it?
What I see is a lot of this is due to genetics(DNA) more than what you eat and drink….
Actually it’s both. With weak genes and a weak immune system, you’re more susceptible to early degradation from contaminants in food, air and water.
Good genes, with clean air, food, and water and you can live long and prosper.
Many people live where they grew up and eat whatever their wife/mom cooks, never considering healthier alternatives.
If the increase in risk is insignificant for one individual, it’s insignificant for a million individuals.
That’s true Kate, but the Reality(TM) of the situation is not what’s Important(TM).
What’s important is the safety industry that has grown up around the fat/salt/sugar hypotheses. From the article, “Spread over a population of millions, that would have an impact.” Yeah, it would have an impact on INSURANCE RATES, or in the case of Obamacare/Canadian socialized medicine on tax rates. But where it will really have an impact is at health-food stores and the Organic aisle at Fortinos. People hate eating fiber, usually. If they don’t constantly get browbeaten into it, they’ll probably stop. Kale farmers will go bust.
Really it only “has an impact” if you consider yourself to be the Great Controller of the people in aggregate, the hive mind of the Borg Collective as it were.
Which is of course what our modern political class considers itself to be. They are not the elected representatives of a limited government whose purpose is to defend the nation, keep the peace and enforce contracts between sovereign individuals.
They are Mummy and Daddy. They say, and we do. There is no sovereign individual, only The Collective.
Speaking as a sovereign individual, this is why I don’t like our modern political class.
I am old enough to have heard all of these conflicting
warnings several times. Coffee is bad for you, later
coffee is good for you. Ditto bacon, eggs, alcohol,
hot dogs, you name it.
Some of the activist groups are as small as two people
with a fax machine like the so-called “Center for Science
in the Public Interest.” Thanks to them, we can no longer
get best tasting butter substitute on our movie theater
popcorn.
When a pressure group this small can effect change out of
all proportion to their numbers, we are all threatened.
The tyranny of the minority is the worst kind of all.
It ends up looking like Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.