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dart board;; science bs
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tl;dr its the pesticides on the vegetables, not the vegetables themselves
That's not true, that's the suspect hypothesis.
true, I was mainly trying to correct the clickbaity headline. thanks for the correction
Chemist here. Pretty sure it is the pesticides. Farmers aren't living as long as their parent farmers. Pesticides are linked to many diseases in farmers . " ...it was observed that 12 out of 30 pesticides used worldwide were associated with an increased risk of some cancers, in particular those of the prostate, lung, colon, and/or pancreas. In addition to the increased risk of cancer, medical studies have documented fertility and pregnancy impacts in agricultural workers among other significant health conditions."
Too lax regulations in US yet again.
USA food regulation is crazy
in most of the world a principle of prohibited untill proven safe is followed, in the land of free questionable chemicals in your food a principle of allowed untill proven unsafe is followed
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.
Its probably the gas burning stove.
Good thing I live on hot dogs and macaroni and cheese! Suck it!
People, look: we have a millionaire here! Let's eat him!
*her.
Doubt I would taste good, too much processed cheese product. :3
Pepper and beer can do culinary miracles, you know...
lol, I suppose so, but If you can afford that, maybe I should be eating you! Pepper…now the bourgeoisie are just rubbing it in!
Hot dogs have gone up in price so much I'll stick to just mac and cheese.
Is Costco still the same price? Might be able to spring for one of those hot dogs, you know, as a treat.
Force you to have a membership now to get food..
Scurvy will get you quicker
100% of people die having had at least 64oz of water in their lifetime. Stop drinking water! Seriously though, this article is 10/10 on the bullshit meter. The "research" link is to a annual meeting. There is no evidence that the "more likely" status is meaningful, and there are no receipts in the article that can be verified.
Jokes on you, I cut my whole grains in half one by one before eating them
I set this scam up where I grind my grains into flour, make bread and sell it as whole grain bread.
Got it, quit eating and start smoking cigarettes.
Science has discovered that saliva causes stomach cancer but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
--George Carlin
Life is carcinogenic, especially in the state of California.
People with self control over their dietary choices blown the fuck out
Qué sera sera.
Why "may"? If they have insufficient data to assert a statement, then is it just as useful to state that it "may not"? So, fruit and veggie consumption may not influence early onset lung cancer.
Because they have enough data to form a hypothesis that requires more research to confirm. Even if you leave the "may" out it'd be very vague because we don't know what exactly causes the cancer. Pesticides on vegetables is just their best guess and even if that's correct, which ones exactly? It might also be something else entirely that happens to correlate with a veggie heavy nutrition but has little to do with the vegetables themselves.
Uncertainty isn't a bad thing.
let's be real, these things never get 'confirmed.'
A lot of times, studies have results that aren't specific or rigorous enough to be definitive, but they can still point the way to how a more conclusive study might be conducted. Just part of the scientific process.