• @Cozy@feddit.de
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    252 years ago

    Corn. It is a fact that the number of autoimmune diseases are rising. I read a NHS study comparing the data of the last 30 or so years and of right now 1 of 10 people in the UK will get an autoimmune disease at some point in their live such as diabetes, MS, Parkinson,… 30 years ago it was like 1 out of 50. And one common thing in countries with a higher autoimmune disease rate is a lot of corn products, like corn starch, corn sirup,… Right now the final proof is missing cause the studies just started. And maybe it is not corn and something completely different, but the stakes are high it is corn.

    • @SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      I feel like with what you’ve stated it is far too early to point to corn itself as the cause. Their are so many things that have grown in usage these past 30 years I’m not sure how they could confidently say it is corn itself doing it.

        • @Cozy@feddit.de
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          32 years ago

          Yes and no. Corn is nothing new but the corn we use is kinda new. It is one of the biggest GMO there is. That’s a big part in research right now within those studies. And it’s not against GMO per se but the changes corn made. Maybe it’s really just sugar and fructose semms to be worse as glucose. So yeah, maybe sugar, but right now it seems to be more.

      • @Lorela@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        Not only could it be almost anything that’s increased in our general environment, but better means to identify specific diseases. Diagnostics and knowledge have advanced in the 30 or so years this study apparently covers, and can account for an “increase” in the prevalence of auto-immune diseases.

        In theory, there’s still some diseases that while well understood, HCPs still take excruciatingly long to diagnose and prefer to explore routes like mental health and exclusionary diagnoses first, which could suggest prevalence is higher still.

        • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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          32 years ago

          Prior to the 1960s, hardly anybody died of cancer.

          Because we didn’t even know what it was, let alone how to detect it.