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I got diagnosed last year at 30 years old. I had lower abdominal pain that lasted a little over a month that I figured was IBS from a traumatic life event that recently happened. It was slowly improving until one day I woke up in extreme abdominal pain. There wound up being a mass at the very start of my large intestine.
The doctors found no obvious reasons as to why it happened- no family history, no substance abuse, no excessive energy drink or alcohol consumption. I now make a large effort to cut out as much processed food in my diet as I can.
Also up your fiber. Low fiber is linked to increased colon cancer risk and most Americans get well below their recommended daily dose.
Glad you're still kicking with the living though and good luck
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.
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.
There's a ton of sugar in canned beans, especially baked beans.
Baked beans sure but I just checked the can of black beans and the can of chickpeas on my shelf. Only thing in ingredients is beans, water, salt.
sugar isnt usually increasing the rate of colon cancer, makes you susceptible to diabetes type 2.
I have to say, I don't think it's going to turn out to be any one thing, but it's probably a lot of somethings that are different for Gen X and Millennials vs Boomers.
Maybe it's related to eating processed food during some kind of critical window that occurs earlier in life (and processed food just didn't exist to the extent that it does now when my dad was growing up), but comparing the current diets of most boomers to most millennials, I have to say I know a lot of boomers that have continued eating like America did throughout the 90s, while a lot of millennials began making healthier food choices.
Like this seems to be at least one reason that the fast food industry is dying, especially now that it's not even cheap anymore.
I know a lot of boomers that have diets like my dad, and good lord that man ate bologna and other processed meats and foods non stop when I was growing up. He also smoked for several years. He's coming up on 73 and cancer free so far. Granted that's an n of 1, but it also seems there was a reason it was trendy for boomers to scoff at millennials for enjoying their avocado toast for breakfast instead of bacon and eggs.
There seems to be little doubt it is hitting earlier for younger generations, but decreasing in the boomers that were feeding us the processed foods and also eating it over the same length of time we were growing up. Is it just because of screening?
It's also not like it's only hitting younger poor people. Even Kate Middleton was suffering from it a couple of years ago. Granted you never know how somebody eats, but given the relationship between income and food deserts, I would expect income level to be a stronger predictor.
Also found this to be really interesting. There are very high poverty rates in Alaska, but junk foods and processed foods can actually be cost prohibitive since everything has to be imported. Also would expect less fast food consumption in Alaska for similar reasons.
could be genetic bottleneck population? limited diversity increased for lethal alleles to appear in a small population.
I read a study about consumption of processed meats a while ago as a contributing factor but scientific studies that affect corporate bottom lines often get buried
E. All of the above
Have a gander at 4 known digestive carcinogenic compounds that are used on american food that are banned everywhere else.
Add in the known carcinogenic effect of over processed and fried foods we are probably on to something.
A single data point but Owsley famously wouldn't touch fiber and only ate raw meat all of his life and he didn't die of colon cancer.
nitrates are in most cured meat, also celery salt as well if you are looking for nitrate free products, but it has celery salt, since celery acumulates nitrates naturally. some people can actually smell and taste the nitrates easily, its a very awful smell and the taste too.
teflon maybe? idk. maybe it's a left handed type thing where now we notice, or we all just died and/or suffered and were just "picky eaters" before.
You might want to consider nano particles. I learned about them in chemistry class not to long ago. It honestly sounded very concerning. Apperantly they are even used in foods and can end up in the water supply. They do bring some health risk which haven't been study too well as its a relatively new field. Some of them have been linked to cancer tho I think. Regulations also seem to be lacking.
I couldn't find out much about them, which honestly is probably due to my lack of research skills and low frustration tolarence at that time
I would suspect processed food too. It seems like this trend has tracked with the rise in ultra-processed foods.
I've done the same. The most processed food in my diet these days is cheese. The best number of ingredients to be listed on a package is one.
The rule of thumb is "can I have this ingredient on my kitchen?" If not then that food is ultra-processed. Of course you have to apply this rule wisely, for instance, the list of ingredients that you can have in a kitchen contains only the traditional things people used to prepare food.
msg is traditional some places (peruvian super spice anyone) therefore i am keeping it
Another good rule of thumb: If the packet says it's healthy, it isn't. It came in a packet.
Is that even legal in the US?
Only if the ingredient is HFCS.
Also hard boiled eggs!
(While funny at a glance, it is better to be consistent and always include the warning even when it is the thing.)
also MSG
Question MSG on the internet and people will call you racist.
I just use it. I was at the carneceria (Mexican meat market for all y'all uncultured you know what get your assets to the local Mexican grocer they're awesome see for yourself) and saw "Peruvian Super Spice" and color me intrigued, right? Pure MSG. Cracked me the fuck up.
Thats 50 years. That's not that long
Edit: From the Article
more microplastics bullshit.
Here's the world breakdown. China is worst because of industrial pollutants.
Lol. This is a population map. Projections to 2040? Without knowing cause, this is conjecture.
India and china have roughly the same population... unless india is severely under diagnosed.