ok, i'm gonna try a more civilized approach:<p>I truly believe that much of the content (can be specified but the list would be long) on the many tubes poses a serious issue, directly and indirectly, and the speed, intervals and the timing at which the tubes are being consumed plays a crucial role.<p>the article cites the academics and says that there are noteworthy hints at<p>> generational shifts in cancer risk.<p>by itself, and even without context, it makes total sense. behaviors and environments change over relatively short time periods; most notably, what people consume:<p>a) actively, as in food, drinks, and media<p>b) passively, as in pollutants and toxins,<p>c) b in a, to a more than just relevant part.<p>But most of that is obvious and there's plenty of discussion about it and the article clearly states that cancer happens in people who seem to be living a healthy lifestyle, except that, what we currently consider to be a healthy lifestyle, might be a pack of wolfs in sheep's clothing:<p>I) supps, energy drinks that are labelled healthy, vapes, common party drugs laced with nonsense, etc., and theoretically healthy foods that are becoming more and more neutral, which kind of means that people are actually eating lesser amounts of healthy food, and even if the threshold is not reached, given how fucked up water, air (and soil) are, as well as temperatures, and unhealthy stress exposure, the bigger picture becomes critical and worthy of attention, especially if you include<p>II) media consumption: the amount of lies on the news is brutal, the amount of perversion of truth and ignorance of fact just as bad and then there are false temporary partisanship, praising and celebrating death and weapon and ammo sales and all the hate and polarization that goes hand in hand with all this shit, and I really don't want to get into the brutal amount of celebrity bullshit, music videos, song lyrics and so on that give the back of your brain more than enough reason to work on fucking time and space travel and certainly, without anyone noticing, create plenty of psychopath-serial-killer-brain cells.<p>All this stress builds up and it has nothing to do with weak men coming out of weak times. It's been only 10 - 20 years in the different "categories" I mentioned.<p>But then there's another topic: the patterns, methods, and characteristics of how consumption occurs.<p>- supps and shakes, but let's ignore those for now, because I want to bring attention to<p>- perfectly healthy people consuming shit on the tubes and via ads everywhere, in intervals and timings that our brains actually need to wind down, to not see or hear anything, to, if necessary, have the energy to tune out the other senses: in transit, breaks, on the fucking toilet, for fucks sake, in waiting lines and rooms and those 35 seconds in front of the micro wave and so on - i'm certain y'all have more and better examples.<p>Sure, a certain cognitive level, aka intelligence & devotion, protect via attention, mindfulness, healthy obsession and so on, but even that kind of humans, feels the stress build up, which is why they spend money and thought on proper recovery. But not everyone has and does that.<p>an anecdote: parents growing up in the soviet union on their own farms: perfectly healthy food, unhealthy drink, no media, die late, relatively rarely of cancer but theres plenty of wear & tear and an increasing rate of freaking Alzheimer's. They move abroad and wonder why children get pimples and zits and allergies. Children stop drinking cheap milk and eating cheap cheese and processed sweets and pimples and zits go away and even the acne and allergies get much better. father stops watching news and the family lives in peace, no unhealthy stress whatsoever, work is a place to make money and compete athletically (if you are the type). but then younger kids get smartphones, consume media all the time, in classically peaceful moments and or moments like i mentioned before: seconds and minutes in the void, so to speak. they develop temporary tics, mimic strange behaviors and dumb speech, their attention 'is weird' and moody, the ways they see and explore the world are 'strange' and they radiate unhealthy stress, mania and obsession quite a fucking lot. i excluded auto-immune stuff on purpose.<p>cancer is rare. especially in healthy people with healthy lifestyles. brains are still largely a complex puzzle with many mechanisms we are not aware of. the changes in media and food consumption in the previous years, the lack of 'void', especially regarding <i>emerging risks</i> in the functioning parts of humanity, deserve much more attention.