01/10/2025
Colon cancer is on the rise among young people β and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar | The Guardian https://share.google/88F7rH2BAbhp55NSl
'Each generation is more likely to get cancer than the previous generation' - unless we make it very clear that there is so much more to what you eat than taste alone. Even if you are fit and within the 'normal' BMI reference range, eating high amounts of ultra processed foods could make you 29% more likely to get colorectal cancer, regardless of whether it has happened to your ancestors or not.
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If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh