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Eating fruits, vegetables and whole grains may increase chance of early onset lung cancer (news.keckmedicine.org)

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Well... You can't really prove something is safe. You can only say "we were unable to demonstrate any link to known harm". PFAS was considered safe for decades. So was asbestos. Then the science got better, and we were able to show things we couldn't before.