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[peds]

Presidentress, surely? 

 

Presidentrix? Presidenta...

 

Priss? Prisses? 

[peds]

2 hours ago, Steven P said:

I'd suspect that there isn't one single cause that you can pinpoint and say "That it is" but are more likely to be many small things that add up to cause cancers.

 

I'd also suspect that genetics plays a role here (in that for example, some people in a family might have allergies, some might not).

 

Third thing I'd suspect is that combine the 2 together, genetics and your diet  / make up / lifestyle might make you a risk of cancer but not someone else living apparently similar lives.

 

Might look up e-numbers too - I had a list once online and their suspected links (website was mostly redundant / duplicated years ago so I took it down) - a lot to do with childhood hyperactivity but cancers and diabetes links appeared regularly (not all e-numbers are bad, some are just a number for food (example E162 is beetroot juice).

 

Peds has a point I think - what we add to crops could have an effect if your body is built that way - and if you can... go for the more organic (example here, broccoli or organic broccoli in Lidl was about 10p different, best chicken to second best chicken again about 15p a kg different, in a big shop we don't notice that). On meat free days we'll go organic chickpeas and so on, difference in price for that meal to a meat meal makes up for going to organic veggies quite often

I didn't see this, it was lost at the bottom of the previous page.

Quoted here to updoot. 

[sime42]

10 hours ago, Stere said:

 

 

Modern plant pots are very  inferior quality  plastic compared to old ones.....

 

I have some old ones that have  lasted yrs

 

Make in UK,  congleton & darlington etc I don't  think anyone makes them anymore the same quality?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The modern orange pots are definitely inferior. Whilst the paper thin jobs thrown out with bedding plants are beneath inferior, clearly intended to be a single use only consumable. Crap.

 

I think there's also a big difference between pots destined for domestic use, and those destined for industrial/commercial use. The big, black ones used by the latter, for shrubs and small trees,  (and by hydroponics operations), are made of a different type of plastic, thicker and more flexible, tougher and last for ages, even in UV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dan blocker]

20 hours ago, Johnsond said:

I bet this character is pleased the GE is over with. Anyone watching him squirm at the enquiry would not recognise him as the jovial bungee jumper. 

What’s his female aid doing in the car with her left hand🤔. Thought he could at least do that himself cos he’s a complete wanker!

[dan blocker]

7 hours ago, peds said:

 

Easiest low-hanging fruit to tackle first: stop spraying glyphosates on cereal crops.

 

 

Would spraying glyphosates on cereal crops just kill the crop🤔

[sime42]

15 minutes ago, dan blocker said:

Would spraying glyphosates on cereal crops just kill the crop🤔

 

They spay it on the harvested cereals to hasten the drying process. That's the case with oats anyway.

[openspaceman]

22 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

They spay it on the harvested cereals to hasten the drying process. That's the case with oats anyway.

That's right it is used as a desiccant, it kills the standing crop and that dries the grain plus it kills any green weeds, making no till direct drilling possible.

 

In my youth sulphuric acid was used to kill the haulm on a potato crop then paraquat came along until it was banned and I suppose glyphosate became cheap enough to use.

[sime42]

9 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Why are so many young people getting cancer?

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Becca used to have formidable life plans. She was a corporate lawyer, happy to work long days across...

Food,Medicines, our Environment possibly all of the above and more who knows !, but it’s most definitely effecting people more and more sadly. 

 

I agree, this is sadly becoming a real issue. I couldn't read that article though, so what was the gist of it? If it was possible causes then, Food - obviously, our Environment - obviously, Medicines - doubtful, a far far smaller factor than the other two certainly.

 

As broacher of this issue, what do you think we should do about it?

[Johnsond]

9 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

I agree, this is sadly becoming a real issue. I couldn't read that article though, so what was the gist of it? If it was possible causes then, Food - obviously, our Environment - obviously, Medicines - doubtful, a far far smaller factor than the other two certainly.

 

As broacher of this issue, what do you think we should do about it?

Some links will post some won’t whether it’s an  iPhone issue or a paywall issue etc I’m not sure. I don’t have the answers other than a greater return to more natural produce but that is ever harder with the increased population and immigration etc etc. I’m not as confident as you are that modern medicine is not involved especially seeing as the increase is marked up as 25% in the young. A drive to educate people on the benefits of physical ( pack in this ridiculous fat is ok body positivity stuff) and therefore mental fitness would help everyone including the NHS, concentrate on obesity rather than the diversity bollocks we witness all the time. For me you could clear 75% of the supermarket shelves as a starter, a huge amount of what’s on there is pure crap as is the  whole junk/fast food industry. when you tell people you shoot and eat rabbits, pigeons, deer etc they look at you like you are insane, yet they will happily ram a festering happy meal into a child 🤷‍♂️
 

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[sime42]

2 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Some links will post some won’t whether it’s an  iPhone issue or a paywall issue etc I’m not sure. I don’t have the answers other than a greater return to more natural produce but that is ever harder with the increased population and immigration etc etc. I’m not as confident in any at as you are that modern medicine is not involved especially seeing as the increase is marked up as 25% in the young. A drive to educate people on the benefits of physical ( pack in this ridiculous fat is ok body positivity stuff) and therefore mental fitness would help everyone including the NHS, concentrate on obesity rather than the diversity bollocks we witness all the time. For me you could clear 75% of the supermarket shelves as a starter, a huge amount of what’s on there is pure crap as is the  whole junk/fast food industry. when you tell people you shoot and eat rabbits, pigeons, deer etc they look at you like you are insane, yet they will happily ram a festering happy meal into a child 🤷‍♂️
 

 

Bringing back Home Economics, or teaching cookery skills in school by some other means would help I reckon. It'd be great if wild meat could be included in that but that's just going too far. Imagine the reaction by all the fluffy bunny loving mummies and daddies!

 

This probably explains why the increase is marked up as 25% in the young - they eat more of the crap as a proportion.

 

Adolescents get most calories from processed food - new study

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Cambridge and Bristol researchers study food diaries and say consumption is "higher than ideal".

 

Regardless of whether or not medicines are carcinogenic, there's plenty of other adverse side effects. If general health was better there wouldn't be such a need for them. It would save a hell of a lot of money too. Obesity for instance is costing the NHS and the economy billions now. (~£60 billion total seems to be the rough figure)