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Colon cancer rates have been rising for decades in younger people, study finds (www.nbcnews.com)

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Researchers saw a sharp increase among teenagers but noted that the overall number of cases in that age group are very low.

Colorectal cancer rates have been rising for decades among people too young for routine screening, new research finds.

Routine screening is recommended every 10 years starting at age 45; the new study focused on rates of the disease in children and adults ages 10 to 44, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cases of colorectal cancer were on the rise in all age groups, the researchers found.

“It means that there is a trend,” said Dr. Islam Mohamed, an internal medicine resident physician at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who led the research. “We don’t know what to make of it yet, it could be lifestyle factors or genetics, but there is a trend.”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are studies gaining traction that pretty conclusively prove it’s due to shit diets.

Eat more veggies, fiber, and bioavailable nutrients and the rates go way down.

Turns out when you feed kids apple-flavored sugar water and ultraprocessed pop tarts and Hostess donuts literally their entire lives, their health goes to shit

Let’s remember while lazy and incompetent parents have always existed, it’s never been this fucking bad. Households working 10+ hours a day struggle to live without kids as it is in the richest nation in the world.

When your back is broken, you can’t buy your kid a reliable used car let alone college, you will never retire, and you will never own a home, it turns out raising an iPad baby with a jar full of cookies happens easier than you think.