Though these statistics seem bleak, it is a “really good news story”, insists Professor Simone Pettigrew, the Head of Food Policy at the George Institute for Global Health.
Though there is not yet the longitudinal data to be clear on the carcinogenic effects of e-cigarettes, they contain “a lot of chemicals” which is usually not a good sign for cancer risk, Pettigrew says.“People like to think ‘it’s not me it’s the really heavy drinkers who are at risk’ but cancer risk is absolute,” Pettigrew said. “Every mouthful is a carcinogen in its own right. It’s not like you have to get drunk to get cancer. That’s not readily understood.
One of the paper’s authors, Dr Xiaoyue Xu from the University of New South Wales, said there was a 20 per cent increase in cancer deaths between 2010 and 2019 from lifestyle and environmental factors. Risk from high BMI, high fasting plasma glucose increased the most. “Much work needs to be done to change this,” Xu said.
“Kids from a young age are learning at 10am you eat a carrot... we need to embed as much of that as possible in society and make eating healthy foods part and parcel of life.” The issue with many packaged foods is that they contain ingredients our bodies haven’t evolved to deal with. For instance,found that artificial sweeteners mess with people’s microbiome and blood sugar levels.
Wrong. Journos need to read more than a press release. By far the biggest factors in cancer risk, even those associated with higher risk due to alcohol, are genetic, sedentary lifestyle, environmental. And we’re talking risk factors, NOT causation. IQs have fallen in the media.
With respect, 'smoking, drinking alcohol, a lack of physical activity and poor diet' is not 'the fun stuff'.