• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    You’re going to be disappointed because there’s almost never any one thing.

    We know, for a fact, that lower fiber intake increases colon cancer risk. So if you lower fiber intake while also increasing ingestion of something that increases risk, well how do you say which is the right link?

    Oh, this goes with all the normal caveats of studies still need to be done, I’m not a doctor just try to stay informed, etc, but some more recent studies have shown a link between excess sugar intake and increased colon cancer risk. The sugar source doesn’t seem to matter so much as amount (so honey vs high fructose corn syrup doesn’t matter). We’ve been slowly adding more and more sugar to everything, at least here in America, so shrugs eat less sweets and more beans.

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      16 hours ago

      Yup, multiple things often have effects that when co bined are worse than the sum of their parts. Like smoking is bad and obesity is bad but smoking while obese seems to be even worse than the two just added together. Plastics plus shitty diet plus massive amounts of stress are going to wreck people’s health far worse than any individual part.

      Plus Tupperware by itself with a moderately ok diet had the balancing effect of keeping food fresher as a tradeoff for the plastic ingestion, like the plastic lining in canned foods.