According to the 2026 report by the American Cancer Society, the overall rate of colorectal cancer has gone down since the mid-1980s. But if you look at it by age, the rate has increased by 2.9 percent each year in people under 50. Plus, these cancers tend to be more aggressive than those diagnosed at an older age.
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No one eats salads anymore...
Without fiber to move everything along, shit gets backed up and you get cancer.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/fiber-and-colon-cancer
I blame 90s all you can eat buffets where kids were encouraged "not to fill up on salads" like that was a bad thing when it was a cost effectiveness thing. Salad was/is cheap, but it's something we need to eat fairly regularly.
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