Time to rethink casual drinking:
Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity, increasing risk for at least seven types of cancer. While scientific evidence for this connection has been growing over the past four decades, less than half of Americans recognize it as a risk factor for cancer.
Do they mean excess alcohol consumption? What are the parameters? What are the diets of the people involved? Does anyone realize how much distilled spirits were consumed by the average American of the 19th century? LMAO!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/the-1800s-when-americans-drank-whiskey-like-it-was
Yeah, they say drinking occasionally is OK. People did use to drink a lot. And smoke. And men used to die at 60 from a heart attack.
ReplyDeleteIf you have ever followed up on the late Dr. Atkins and others, you would know that heart disease and heart attacks became more prevalent after the introduction of processed flour and other additives in the 1900s. Smoking not a great idea either though many doctors were okay with it.
DeleteI believe most of our problems are not from a lack of calories but a lack of nutrition.
Childhood deaths were prevalent in the 1800s but plenty of people made it past 60. Cancers were known in the 1800s and could probably be found in old medical text at the Internet Archive.
There has been a spike in colon cancers among the younger adult population.
Yeah, that's why nowadays they recommend eating whole grains and restricting sugar. And avoiding ultra processed food.
ReplyDelete"Whole grains" are kind of scam as well if the husks are being removed and making it processed food.
DeleteI love the way these 'medical guys' publish this BS 'science' with regards to red meat and alcohol causing cancer but ignore seed oils and the way food has way too many preservatives. There is also the issue of the water maybe perhaps being too pure in addition to fluoride and microplastics. I drank from a water well the first dozen years of my life most of the time.
Funny that obesity took off just as 'low fat' and other nonsense were being espoused as healthy.
While there could be a debate about red meat, there is absolutely no doubt that alcohol raises the risk for cancer (which isn't the same as causing it, btw). And liver disease. And kidney failure. And heart problems. But anyone is free to drink, of course;)
DeleteA typical American diet is by no means low fat, from what I see online. And full of unhealthy processed foods. If you eat 10 000 calories a day you'll eventually get fat. Agree about fluoride. But luckily, we don't have it added to our water.
BTW, have you heard? MTG is resigning. Was there an offer she couldn't refuse?
ReplyDeleteYeah, there are a wide variety of varying opinions on this one.
DeleteWell, I do have an opinion but at this point I think I'll keep it to myself;)
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