Did we just start adding this chemical in the ast five years? I can think of any other widespread roll out of a new technology in the same period.

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pfdietz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The increase is cancers in younger age groups was noticed earlier than that, and the cancers can't be expected to occur instantly upon exposure to a carcinogen.

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moooo99 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Where does the confidence that it is due to sweeteners come from? This isn‘t about your comment in particular, more of a general observation.

Many people instinctively attribute this rise in colon cancer to diet products, almost pretending as if it is the only thing that has meaningfully changed over the past 40 years or so. Others like to point to changing consumption habits in people drinking more sugary beverages.

It is almost as if everyone is projecting their personal believes into this. But the truth seems frustratingly simple: we really just do not know yet

	▲	pfdietz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Where does the confidence that it is due to sweeteners come from? Probably from your inability to read what I actually wrote. The word "suspicion" does not connote confidence.