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[–] 76 points 4 months ago (3 children)

tl;dr its the pesticides on the vegetables, not the vegetables themselves

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's not true, that's the suspect hypothesis.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    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."

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Too lax regulations in US yet again.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Good thing I live on hot dogs and macaroni and cheese! Suck it!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    *her.

    Doubt I would taste good, too much processed cheese product. :3

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hot dogs have gone up in price so much I'll stick to just mac and cheese.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Jokes on you, I cut my whole grains in half one by one before eating them

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Got it, quit eating and start smoking cigarettes.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Science has discovered that saliva causes stomach cancer but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

    --George Carlin

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Life is carcinogenic, especially in the state of California.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    People with self control over their dietary choices blown the fuck out

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Qué sera sera.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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