The incidence of colorectal cancer among younger people in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past two decades, with the most significant increases observed in the youngest age groups. A study recently presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024 found that from 1999 to 2020, the rate of c
This sounds like too big a jump to be explained by bacon. Microplastics maybe? :(
Sounds like the shitty western diet, lack of exercise, and the resulting obesity are the primary causes at least in the US.
Yep, obesity has skyrocketed… it’s not bacon. Around 40% of the usa is obese. It’s the number one cause of death now.
Shitty western diet isn’t new though. Think of all the crap people ate and drank and smoked in the 1950s. They got cancer, but not early colorectal cancer in these numbers.
Well i haven’t read the article but on principle you can make many things sound more or less dramatic than they might actually be with percentages. If there were 3 people with colon cancer per year (random figure) and now there are 18 that is 500% more, but may as well be a statistic outlier.
That being said I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be either or both. Microplastics are everywhere, we can only hope they dont fuck with our biological processes in irreversible ways (like causing infertility).
That could be the case with extremely rare diseases, but sadly that’s not the case here.
Probably faulty to look for a singular causal factor. It’s probably a mixture of various environmental and dietary changes that have occurred over the last 10-20 years or so