At the beginning of news in a format like the following, you must see it at regular intervals:
At the age of 23, this is a beautiful age. However, college students in such and such places (alias) have to fight against gastric cancer every day.
Before her illness, so-and-so lived a wanton life. She liked drinking beer, eating kebabs, smoking and staying up late to play games all night.
Doctor XXX of XXX Hospital lamented that young people suffer from gastric cancer and bad living habits are a great inducement.
Dr. XXX has repeatedly stressed that the incidence of gastric cancer is showing a trend of younger age. It is very important to prevent the occurrence of cancer and adhere to a healthy lifestyle.
Very familiar, isn’t it? It’s also scary, isn’t it?
However, Dr. Clove felt that he had to say something fair:
A healthy lifestyle has always been advocated, but it is wrong to always want to make big news!
It seems that with the word [pseudonym], you can make up stories casually, thinking that readers will not check the authenticity of this [so-and-so]?
Is it because young people have poor habits that cancer is getting younger?
It’s not that simple.
Take gastric cancer as an example. Gastric cancer and gastric cancer are not all the same. There is a kind of [intestinal type] gastric cancer, which generally requires ten or even decades of chronic stimulation. It develops from inflammation to cancer, and more elderly people suffer from it.
Another kind of [diffuse] gastric cancer, just listen to the name you may guess its severity. It can diffuse in any part of the stomach, and it is easy to metastasize all over the body, and the malignant degree is relatively high, relatively easy [once found, it is advanced]. Yes, it is the one with a higher incidence rate among young people.
A very cruel reality is that cancer occurs at a young age, and most of the time this young man is born with the gene that can cause cancer.
If you eat or not eat barbecue, cook or not stay up late, cancer genes are buried in your body like a time bomb.
This is why some people have healthy living habits and get cancer, while others smoke, drink and burn their heads … Oh, no, staying up late to eat barbecue does not necessarily get cancer.
Barbecue, staying up late, smoking and drinking are indeed carcinogenic.
But then again, Dr. Clove does not want to wash these bad living habits in vain.
We must emphasize many times and emphasize again:
Tobacco, alcohol and benzopyrene (easily produced by barbecue) belong to Class 1 carcinogens and cause cancer [with clear risks].
High-temperature fried food, acrylamide, reverse work and rest, belong to Class 2A carcinogen, carcinogenic [relatively high possibility].
The category here is determined by the International Agency for Cancer Research according to the evidence level of existing research. It does not mean that cancer will definitely occur when exposed to these things, but rather:
If you have certain cancer genes, it is easier to [spot] the corresponding cancer under the long-term stimulation of the corresponding risk factors.
Barbecue and smoking are indeed related to gastric cancer, but gastric cancer may also be related to Helicobacter pylori, hormones and iodine deficiency. As for staying up late, there is even no evidence to prove that staying up late is related to gastric cancer.
Of course, adhering to a healthy lifestyle and staying away from these carcinogenic risk factors can definitely reduce the incidence of cancer.
However, as in many news reports, it is far-fetched and not rigorous to establish a causal relationship between gastric cancer and staying up late to eat barbecue, between gallstones and not eating breakfast, and between gout and drinking hot pot soup.
Some people may say that the media’s publicity is also for the sake of public health. It is to warn everyone not to overdraw their lives but to live a healthy life for everyone’s good.
Dr. Clove must say again: We must reject such propaganda. When we can clearly provide better health science popularization, we cannot just say [drink more hot water].
Consulting Doctor
If you want to have healthy intestines and stomach, you can consult a digestive physician for stomach pain and acid at ordinary times.