I’ve been saying some things over and over for forty years. It gets a bit boring. Especially I find it irritating when some of the new upstart “health researchers” (meaning Googlers) start getting on the bandwagon. They are not scientifically trained and so omit to mention what we call priority: who was first.
All these dudes care about is grabbing maximum attention and recognition. They know almost NOTHING but are good at positioning themselves high up on Google and keep showing up on searches. From there they just spout the same old same olds. None of it is backed by clinical experience; they don’t have any.
Eventually of course the orthodox scientists and doctors get onto it. They are always late for the party. You probably know the old saw, I think it’s modified from a saying by French philosopher Michele de Montaigne (1533 – 1592):
1. It’s nonsense; you’re crazy
2. There might be something in it but where’s the proof?
3. We’ve known that all along, of course!
Montaigne was very funny. He said “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit on our own ass!
So with some reluctance I turn to the dangers of sugar. This is something where citizen science comes into play, so listen up. YOU can save lives!
Recently we have been seeing a huge uptick in cancers in young people. No, not COVID and the vaccines. This surge started long before 2019 and the cause, I’m sorry to say, is obvious.
Sweeties, candies and sodas, especially so-called energy drinks. The younger generation seem to have gone crazy for ridiculously-priced drinks that contain only sugar and caffeine.
As of March 2024, 32 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 consume energy drinks regularly, and energy drinks are the second-most popular ‘dietary supplement’ among adults in that age group behind multivitamins.
A can of Red Bull, one of the most popular of genre, costs 9 cents to make ($0.09) and sells for an average of $1.79. That’s over 98% profit and most of “cost” goes on the can, not the contents! Red Bull’s energy drinks are sold in over 171 countries, which equates to over 7.5 billion cans sold per year.
Yet it’s junk…
As a result, the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with cancer in the UK has risen by 24 per cent in two decades, a sharper increase than any other age group, and doctors trying to work out what’s behind the rapid rise have suspected for some time that modern diets are to blame in some way.
Earlier this week, UK cancer expert Professor Charles Swanton expressed concern over the rise in younger cancer diagnoses.¹
He said: ‘Over recent decades, there has been a clear increase in cancer incidence rates in young adults in the UK.
‘Evidence suggests that more adults under 50 may be getting cancer than ever before.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL
This was an interesting study. They surveyed kids eating habits and looked also at fiber (can’t stand the American way of spelling that word!)
I used to think that if fiber was healthy, we could all just chop up the carpets and eat those! That was till I met with Denis Burkitt back in the 1960s. He was a rock-star physician/researcher/maverick. His name is now forever attached to a lymphoma (a form of cancer) which is now known to be transmissible by a virus. It was the first story in the long saga of viruses and cancer. There will be MANY more before the end.
But that wasn’t the theme of Burkitt’s lecture that day; it was fiber. He joked with us all (as old-time professors used to do). He ran the figures on the massive upsurge in cancers, diabetes, obesity and heart disease among native Africans and then proposed that the “cause” was plastic buckets!
Plastic buckets must have been a godsend for women, who had to carry water on their head in a clay jar.
See, since the wild tribes became Westernized and took on the trimmings of civilization, they had all sorts of modern gadgets, including cup-and-saucers, food whisks and plastic buckets. Burkitt showed us pictures of bands of individuals and there was a plastic bucket in every pictures. Case closed! Haha!
Well we knew it wasn’t that. Then he showed us several pictures of human poop (outdoors, by the road, etc.) They were spreads of fecal splat, quite frankly. This he said, is at the heart of the problem. Natives on a traditional diet ate lots of fiber, they pooped cow-pat sized deposits. But they never got cancer, diabetes, overweight or heart disease.
The typical Westerner, on the other hand, ate badly and pooped rocks. To this day I remember Burkitt’s slide of a telephone in the can in an hotel! That says it all.
The difference… you guessed it… is fiber in the diet. Now, in the West, nobody bothers with fiber. Factually nobody bothers much with food! It’s all ultra-processed nonsense. The calories are there but not any of the characteristics of food for which we evolved.
95 percent of Americans don’t get enough fiber, according to the USDA, which recommends that adults get between 25 and 30 grams of fiber daily. However, most Americans consume only about 10 to 15 grams of fiber a day. In the UK it’s worse: only 9% of Brits consume the recommended 30g of fibre per day.
But Why?
Dysbiosis is a problem and leads to overgrowth of pathogenic microbes which induce inflammation, leading to accelerated aging in [early-onset colorectal cancer],’ the researchers wrote.
The team noted that the findings align with other recent data, suggesting that low-fiber, processed diets throw off the gut microbiome balance in a process called intestinal dysbiosis.
Additionally, researchers at the University of Florida introduced a trial this weekend which will aim to evaluate the effect of energy drinks on young colorectal cancer patients.
The team is recruiting 60 colorectal cancer patients ages 18 to 40 with no family history of the disease to see if taurine, an ingredient in energy drinks like Red Bull, feeds H2S-metabolizing bacteria (hydrogen sulfide), which has been linked to increased incidences of colorectal cancer.²
‘These bacteria preferentially use taurine, an essential amino acid, as a primary energy source. Energy drinks represent one of the largest dietary sources (6-16x normal daily intake) of taurine in contemporary diet,’ the team wrote.
So what with the toxicity of taurine, excess sugar and lack of fiber in their diet, leading to dangerous cancer-forming dysbiosis, the kids are in trouble. This could make them more susceptible to mutations that leads to cancer and less likely to be able to fight off the growth of tumor cells.
If you have youngsters (and under-50 is a pretty liberal definition of “young”!), you need to berate, bully or outright threaten them, to stop them eating and drinking ultra-processed garbage. You MUST do this.
To Your Good Health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
