[jbuhbjlnjbn]

The usual suspects are pesticides, emulsifiers, preservatives/additives, genetically engineered food, highly processed food and then overall plain worse eating, as in lack of: unprocessed, fiber, freshness.

The problem is that there is so much money in food made by big companies nowadays, for every reputable study you will get 10 studies paid by those companies that proclaim the opposite.

[sharts]

It's as though incentives in our market economies prioritize the wrong things. But we must not change anything because communism.

[ryandvm]

Saw a study the other day that linked certain colon cancers with the prevalence of a particular strain of bacteria that is usually exclusively found in the mouth. Correlation != causation and all that, but that does kind of correspond with what seem to be generational shifts in certain sexual practices.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07182-w

[nickburns]

'seeming generational shifts in certain sexual practices' to who? to you apparently, right?

[ryandvm]

To me, yes. I thought I was clear about the speculative and personal nature of my observation.

[nickburns]

'to me' makes it much clearer.

[colpabar]

to who? to you apparently, right?

[nickburns]

no, the addition of 'to me' makes it objectively clearer. unless you're intentionally being obtuse, right?