{"id":9666,"date":"2023-10-25T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2023-10-13T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:45:20","slug":"disturbing-rise-of-colon-cancer-rates-in-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing rise of colon cancer rates in young people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A study published in March by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/9lcba\/https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.3322\/caac.21772\" target=\"_blank\">the American Cancer Society<\/a>\u00a0noted that that in 2023, 13% of the 153,000 people in the United States diagnosed with colorectal cancer would be among people under 50 \u2014 representing an almost 10 percent increase in cases in this age group\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/9lcba\/https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/content\/dam\/cancer-org\/research\/cancer-facts-and-statistics\/colorectal-cancer-facts-and-figures\/colorectal-cancer-facts-and-figures-2020-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">since 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of speculation as to causes: obesity, binge drinking, increase in sugary drinks, changes in gut bacteria. Eating healthier diets (fruits\/vegs over processed meats), maintaining a healthy weight, stop smoking, stop drinking, and especially early colonoscopy screening can save your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New York Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9lcba\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9lcba\">Colon Cancer Is Rising Among Younger Adults. Here\u2019s What to Know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study published in March by\u00a0the American Cancer Society\u00a0noted that that in 2023, 13% of the 153,000 people in the United States diagnosed with colorectal cancer would be among people under 50 \u2014 representing an almost 10 percent increase in cases in this age group\u00a0since 2020. There is a lot of speculation as to causes: obesity, binge drinking, increase in sugary drinks, changes in gut bacteria. Eating healthier diets (fruits\/vegs over processed meats), maintaining a healthy weight, stop smoking, stop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9666\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2vU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}