New York to Track Residents’ Food Purchases and Place ‘Caps on Meat’ Served by Public Institutions
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Until mid-1950s (when Western diet <vegetables> became more accessible) they had a staggering incidence of colo-rectal cancer. Something nuts like 1 in 3 got it. It's steadily dropped since then.
Interesting enough to make me do a quick cursory check, and I found substantiation for the Inuit having high cancer rates as well as this:
Source: NIH (sorry :)
Are these stats for inuit who moved to western society and ate the bad food that everyone else does, or was it those living on their native diet in the Arctic?
Also, black Americans generally eat a lot of fried foods ("soul") and need more sunshine to produce Vitamin D than other people do, and most don't get that in America like their counterparts do in Africa (especially those living near the Equator).
Are things like this included in the analysis?
No.
In the south it's not only blacks eating fried foods, most eat it. I don't believe fried is bad, it's the fat used for frying. Most people use the cheapest oils, classified as vegetable oil so people think they are healthy. Most restaurants and packaged foods use canola, cotton seed, soy and corn oil. Most people think when they are buying crisco/lard it's still from the hog, nope it's from crappy seed oils. It blows my mind how many people still aren't educated on this subject. Even ice cream and chocolate has that bad oil unless you pay more for the quality products. Nothing will change in America until the companies are forced to change. That won't happen because someone is getting a kick back. Look up heart association story promoting canola oil. I know a family that has three breast cancer survivors and they still don't understand why they got cancer. They believe the doctors, "genetics is why"! They still have margarine in their fridge.
It's all diet related and what part of the digestive tract most sensitive to the intake. Weird one in China, from memory so likely partially in error. High rate of colon cancer in an rural area. First thought was long forgotten chemical spill but no industry ever there. Found that main diet was grilled pork with cabbage unique to that area. Not grown elsewhere in China. Fat from the pork hit the coals and vaporized back onto pork. This new compound reacted in stomach with something in the cabbage to form a <cancerous> compound. As I recall rates dropped over time when new cooking methods used.