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> Ehh..a lot of thing are “implicated as carcinogens”, it doesn’t mean they are.

Well it's worth asking the question though, if only 1% of these suspected carcinogens truly are carcinogens, or act in combination as carcinogens you potentially have hundred thousands of cancers caused by things as dumb as "colorant to make the chips red" or "oil that's 1% cheaper than the healthy alternative".

The vast majority of cancers are lifestyle related so if you can eat clean, exercise every day, be lean, avoid pollutants, avoid diet (known and suspected) carcinogens you improves your odds quite a lot.

Coffee has been around forever so the good thing is that you can rule it out as a cause of new unexplained rises. What hasn't been around forever are 900cal starbucks "coffee" with three times the daily recommended daily amount of sugar for example.

Another thing is that we spray virtually all our crops with chemicals having a skull, a dead fish and a cancer sign on the bottle



But you're missing the point - people get worked up about things that "might be carcinogenic" like food dye, but then willingly ingest something we know are carcinogenic.




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