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Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by ncmncm on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:34AM (#30600983)
We already know the key contributor: we eat enormously more sugar now than our parents did, and enormously less saturated fat.

Now that we know, with certainty, what a disastrous choice this was, it will take time to switch back. Most people are still convinced saturated fat is the bugaboo it has been painted as, and that sugar is A-OK, and government policy is still overwhelmingly directed that way.

What can be done with half the US maize crop (of what is left over after 1/3 has been diverted to make into alcohol to add to gasoline, enriching Archer Daniels Midland at taxpayer expense) when it is no longer enzymatically converted to sugar is an open question. Does the world want that much maize?

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Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by matthewdgreen on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:16PM (#30602508)
The main point the blog makes is that there's a huge discontinuity in the 1970s that doesn't seem to be explained by diet. And it occurs in other countries as well, though often with a delay.
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