Quote (EndlessSky @ 19 Mar 2024 17:51)
That's not necessarily the case.
The map tracks cancer among young people today.
We would need three other data points here, the cancer rates among the young ~20 years ago in the same places - and also the obesity rates among the young both now and 20 years ago.
On a high level, obesity is strongly linked to cancers, especially the ones with a metabolic/glycolysis basis. Obesity rates have been on the rise everywhere as a blanket fact.
Other causes could be PFA's & PET in water, which have been on the rise in industrialized nations.
But the map shows cancer rates among young people in absolute numbers, not the change rate. And as a German who has been to both France and the UK multiple times over the past 20 years, I can assure you that both people are, and have been, significantly more fat than the French, just like they are, and have been, eating less healthy than the French.
The rise of PFAs and PET in the water and the food seems like a more plausible explanation to me, those could occur in a localized-enough fashion to explain this kind of variation between countries.