/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17891841
>>17891955
The unpleasant reality most don't want to accept is that more cancer cases than not happen because of random DNA replication errors, not how good a job you did "being healthy."
>Cancers are caused by mutations that may be inherited, induced by environmental factors, or result from DNA replication errors (R). We studied the relationship between the number of normal stem cell divisions and the risk of 17 cancer types in 69 countries throughout the world. The data revealed a strong correlation (median = 0.80) between cancer incidence and normal stem cell divisions in all countries, regardless of their environment. The major role of R mutations in cancer etiology was supported by an independent approach, based solely on cancer genome sequencing and epidemiological data, which suggested that R mutations are responsible for two-thirds of the mutations in human cancers. All of these results are consistent with epidemiological estimates of the fraction of cancers that can be prevented by changes in the environment.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf9011
People prefer to focus on the preventable stuff because they like feeling in control, but even with something as notoriously carcinogenic as cigarette smoking the absolute lifetime risk for a given smoker ending up dead from lung cancer is really 3% (you usually hear the relative risk reported instead where it's 15 to 30 times the risk of a nonsmoker, while not getting the part where both risks are fairly small and neither nonsmoker nor smoker is likely to have that outcome).

>>17815207
>bolt your food
I'm glad this retarded phrasing died out.
Also
>You're dying either way but if you refuse to do anything enjoyable you get to put it off for an extra couple of years
lol