I’ve read some papers that blame it on plastics, that increased plastic use in food packaging starting in the 70s leading to almost all foods by the 90s has led to the explosion of microplastics in all people, including fetuses in the womb, as well as pretty much every animal and waterway tested. Others blame it on the diets that “first world” countries enjoy that are high in ultra processed foods and chemicals. I’m no scientist but you can kind of see where those things line up with the increase of larger people and younger people getting sick sooner.

Although, that doesn’t explain why young people are getting cancer in higher amounts and older people in lesser amounts.

Of course, scientific papers are kind of wild, tomorrow ten new papers could come out claiming all of that is a lie… my favorite example is the MSG scare, one paper said it was bad about 50-60 years ago and now most Americans still believe that, despite multiple other papers saying that it’s fine in moderation just like regular salt.

I may be biased in that though because I use MSG in my recipes instead of salt, I think they taste better, you can buy it under the consumer friendly name Accent. Although I don’t like it for things like Fries or Eggs where you need to sprinkle it on.