“Diet & cancer is complicated, & modifiable risk from diet less than you might think. Not helpful when wellness “influencers” like Happy pear implicitly blame breast cancer on diet, needlessly shames patients. Asked about this lots, so here’s a short video”

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1. I’m picturing all these poor women sipping their soy latte’s with a plate of mushrooms in front of them, with the two men in tight t-shirts at the counter giving them the cheeky smile and thumbs up.

   The happy pair of snake oil salesmen went too far this time

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3. Diets high is processed meat and red meat do increase the risk of some cancers but you can’t just tell someone who has cancer that their diet is the reason. It’s literally impossible to assign a direct cause

4. I got their book from my mum a while ago, reading the intro they were talking about how fats were bad for you and essentially useless. Closed the book and never opened it again, bunch of chancers.

   It’s just such an ignorant take, like the kind of shit a 14year old with anorexia would think is scientifically sound.

5. All in the name of profit, these shameless scum bags.

6. Like pretty much all influencers they’re bluffers.

7. I don’t think they were blaming or shaming people for getting cancer.
   They’re business men at the end of the day, they’re not going to say things that would jeopardise the business or their reputations.

8. A good friend of mine used to work in the same space as these guys. He would be on their social media, they would would be on his promoting each other. Well about a year ago now he died at 52 from cancer. He ate the super diet and no processed food etc.

9. https://www.cancer.ie/cancer-information-and-support/cancer-prevention/diet-and-cancer/the-five-fundamentals-of-healthy-eating

   Inflammation in the body causes disease. The foods on this list cause inflammation