Isn't it funny how the highest rates of cancer occur in the countries with the highest rates of dairy consumption?
Coincidence? I think not!
Coincidence? I think not!
Art
Almost as funny as the highest rates of cancer occur in countries where the average person lives past the age of 60. Not a lot of people dying from cancer in central Africa where the average age at death is less than 30.
Amaretta
Those cancer rates also primarily occur in prosperous countries with good health care and access to doctors. We don't know if cancer is also a problem in third world nations because they have substandard health care. Their residents don't have access to doctors, hospitals or cancer treatment and many patients can barely afford to eat, let alone pay for medical care. Cancer rates are not reported in those countries because there is no way to keep track of what's going on in the bush and hidden valleys.
Jon
If you mean 'Is there a causal link between levels of dairy product consumption and cancer rates?' why not write so in proper English?
Plogsties
Dairy products have been a staple food for humans for thousands of years. The likelihood that such food explains the recent increase in certain (and total malignancies) is, essentially, zero. This is a common fallacy: A occurs at the same time as B, therefore A causes B. A much more likely cause is the thousands of new chemicals that man has introduced to his environment, chemicals that never existed on earth prior to their introduction. Examples, insecticides, pesticides, plastics, BPA, phthalates, chemical fertilizers, the thousands of drugs people take (metabolic products of which appear in the ground-water, excreted in stool or urine). I could go on for pages but I think you get the idea.
Allen
You could probably also say that is also true of automobile use, or anything else. In science "correlation", the agreement between the cancer and dairy you suggest, does NOT prove cause and effect. In fact, the reverse could be true, cancer causes an increase in dairy consumption. There is a famous example where the number of nesting pairs of storks in Denmark was compared to the number of hospital births and there was "correlation", thus PROVING "storks bring babies". Like you, "I think not".