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1. toasty228 · 1790687453 · focus · HN ↗

   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oatext.com&#x2F;which-environment-makes-cancer.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oatext.com&#x2F;which-environment-makes-cancer.php

   Always a good read, most cancers are environmental, and most of these are caused by obesity, bad diet and smoking&#x2F;drinking, fix these four things in your life and you reduce your chances of getting cancer by 50%+

   1. lanfeust6 · 1790689761 · focus · HN ↗

      What&#x27;s interesting is how low alcohol ranks compared to obesity and diet. It makes the recent moral panic following loose interpretations of the Lancet study seem hypocritical, if not misguided. If anything deserves a &quot;may cause cancer&quot; sticker, it&#x27;s nitrate-ridden processed meat.

      1. ryan_n · 1790691641 · focus · HN ↗

         Nitrate ridden processed meat already has a “may cause cancer” sticker on it (unless you mean a literal sticker warning when you buy meat from stores?):

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressreport.cancer.gov&#x2F;prevention&#x2F;diet_alcohol&#x2F;red_meat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressreport.cancer.gov&#x2F;prevention&#x2F;diet_alcohol&#x2F;re...

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.iarc.who.int&#x2F;Book-And-Report-Series&#x2F;Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans&#x2F;Red-Meat-And-Processed-Meat-2018" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.iarc.who.int&#x2F;Book-And-Report-Series&#x2F;Iar...

         1. shiandow · 1790695735 · focus · HN ↗

            &gt; unless you mean a literal sticker warning when you buy meat from stores?

            What else could it possibly mean?

            1. ryan_n · 1790695884 · focus · HN ↗

               I thought they meant it figuratively I guess.. I don’t know in hindsight maybe that’s dumb?

               1. shiandow · 1790696276 · focus · HN ↗

                  I guess I see how you could read it like that, but no I&#x27;m pretty sure this was meant literally.

                  1. lanfeust6 · 1790699007 · focus · HN ↗

                     correct, and I mentioned it because cancer warnings are explicitly now on the table for policymakers in the West related to alcohol, iirc

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