*cough* ...contraception *cough*
Is the rate of breast cancer increasing or is the diagnosis being made earlier and earlier?
I don't suppose that the fact that they aren't dying in childbirth, from easily preventable diseases, or from tribal violence might have something to do with it?
Contraception, abortion, artificial sweeteners, corn syrup (in everything), and highly processed everything. Longer life for women, earlier screening. All 4 of my grandparents were immigrants. At least 3 of them had family members living into their 90's. Death at 80-something meant accident or epidemic or death in infancy. My maternal grandparents lived in a small town with many other immigrants. And they all had the same story, never seeing these diseases in the old country. Now, diagnostic improvements aside, we're talking about alert, healthy people working into their 80's at least, here in the new country, many keeping 'the old ways'. My mom and my aunt were both young when they had breast cancer. It was literally unheard of on either side of the family. Neither lived past 70. On my dad's side, heart disease and diabetes popped up in his generation, again the older parents and grandparents who had immigrated did not have these diseases and often outlived the younger, American generation. And they drank and ate lots of fat. And this was true of their immigrant neighbor families, to a large extent.
True, this is a personal anecdote, and highly unscientific, but there does seem to be something to it here in the west. Amongst ourselves, as 2nd generation Americans, it is noticed and discussed by us.
My guess is that three factors are the cause of most of the higher breast cancer rate. In order of severeity, those factors are: the use of transfatty acids in foodstuffs; birth control pills; and abortions. The first interferes with normal lipid metabolism, while the second two impair natural hormonal metabolism.
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