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Re:Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? by dominotw on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:17PM (#32781115)
If a doctor says to you ' you have hypertension because you've been eating pizza for dinner last 5 years' .

Do you ask them to provide you with proof directly linking your pizza eating to hypertension? Would you just ignore their advice for lack of proof?

No one will be able to provide you direct link between 'lifestyle choices' and chronic disease at an individual level.

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Re:Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? by sweetheart on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:32PM (#32781376)
> No one will be able to provide you direct link between 'lifestyle choices' and chronic disease at an individual level.

I wasn't implying I require that for anything. I was just pointing out that someone made broad, speculative claims about the general medical consensus of things like read meat and sugar, and then used an anecdote to support their own claims about those things. Take from that what you will! I just find it funny and worth mentioning.

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