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Re:Study mode by noosphr on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:00PM (#44729627)
Two days ago when my boomer mother in law tried to justify her anti-cancer diet that killed Steve Jobs. On the bright side my partner will be inheriting soon by the looks of it.
Re:Study mode by throwawaylaptop on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:27PM (#44729804)
The anti cancer diet absolutely works if you want to reduce the odds of getting cancer. It probably even works to slow cancer compared to the average American diet. Will it stop and reverse a cancer? Probably not.
Re:Study mode by paulryanrogers on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:10PM (#44730054)
I thought it was high fiber diets that reduce risk of cancer (ever so slightly), because of reduced inflammation. Not fruity diets, which are high in carbohydrates.
Re:Study mode by pasc1878 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:33AM (#44732611)
Cutting red or preserved meat cuts bowel cancer risk so fruity diets would cut that risk.
Re:Study mode by AppleBananaPie on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:13PM (#44730069)
How much does it 'reduce the odds'?
Re:Study mode by throwawaylaptop on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @12:16AM (#44730856)
Idk, I'm not an encyclopedia. You can Google it.
Re:Study mode by filoleg on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:27PM (#44729805)
Not defending your mother-in-law here (because I agree with you that it is a pretty silly and maybe even potentially harmful diet), afaik it wasn’t the diet itself that killed Steve Jobs. It was his decision to do that diet instead of doing actual cancer treatment until it was too late.
Re:Study mode by noosphr on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @11:03PM (#44730593)
Given that I've got two people telling me here "ackshually" I guess it may not be hallucinations and just really terrible training data.

Up next - ChatGPT does jumping off high buildings kill you?

>>No jumping off high buildings is perfectly safe as long as you land skillfully.

Re:Study mode by UltraSane on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @01:32AM (#44731134)
Job's diet didn't kill him. Not getting his cancer treated was what killed him.
Re:Study mode by noosphr on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @01:37AM (#44731144)
Yes, we also covered that jumping off buildings doesn't kill people. The landing does.
Re:Study mode by _flux on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @03:02AM (#44731549)
Indeed if you're a base jumper with a parachute, you might survive the landing.

Ackshually, this seems analogous to Job's diet and refusal of cancer treatment! And it was the cancer that put him at the top of the building in the first place.

Re:Study mode by filoleg on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:32PM (#44778599)
>>No jumping off high buildings is perfectly safe as long as you land skillfully.

Not really, because no matter how you spin it, the person in your scenario dies.

However, doing Steve Jobs’ diet might actually be fine (or at least not deadly) for an average person. Only as long as they don’t have late-stage pancreatic cancer and don’t decide to forego chemotherapy treatment.

Which is what killed Jobs, not the diet. For all we know, he might’ve been alive today even if he followed the same diet, as long as he also did the chemo treatment.