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Technically, I should avoid or minimise breathing because I live a few miles from a busy airport (another recent health scare).
I'm finding this quite challenging
Going back to the original post, you don't actually need sugar (ignoring hypo situations), so it should be made easier for people to minimise intake, whether through regulation, taxation, education, information or any EFFECTIVE combination of these.
Well, that is challenging!
Let's just get one thing very clear here. Ageing "causes cancer" too. Should we stop people getting older?
This is one of those reports that raises some interesting ethical questions regarding life. We've known for a while that there is a link between processed meats and cancer - it is not new news. Red meats may cause cancer too? Oh well. According to the WHO data, the increased risk is an increase of 18% on the existing risk.
According to the US CDC, the likelihood of getting bowel cancer over periods of time increases as you get older, or in other words, if you are 30, the likelihood of getting it in the next ten years, is 0.07% and in 30 years is 0.97%. So, the likelihood if you eat the bad processed meats is 0.083% in the next ten years and and 1.14% in the next thirty years. Really not worth worrying about.
By having Diabetes, my risk of death is increased. I am 48% more likely than normal to have a heart attack. Everything kills you in some way. It's called life, so let's just get on with it!
Thank you for sharing those stats. Very interesting read.
While we are off topic and writing about cancer instead of the sugar tax may I ask a question?
Would it be a shorter list and a whole lot quicker if we were all given a list of things that don't cause cancer?
Perhaps the Daily Fail could help here.
It would most likely make front page of the Daily Express, too