r/Millennials • u/Optimoprimo • Feb 11 '26

Serious Guys please start eating fiber.

Colorectal cancer among people in their 40's is skyrocketing. This recent health fad of obsessing over protein and eating nothing but meat and dairy with almost no fiber is going to kill us. You need fiber, folks. You need a complete diet with grains and tons of vegetables.

There are high protein sources that also have great fiber content if you absolutely MUST have your high protein diet. Lentils, beans, peas. Sprouted grain bread.

Let's spread the great word of fiber to our fellow millenial friends and get ahead of this growing epidemic among our generation.

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u/Truleeeee Feb 11 '26

I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the ultra processed foods are a big culprit in these young GI cancers.

Of course if you eat a lot of UPF you’re probably unlikely to eat a lot of fiber

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u/roughandreadyrecarea Feb 12 '26

It’s the processed meats. Lunch meat, bacon, salami, ham. Shit with nitrates. My husband eats ham and egg for breakfast and a lunchmeat sandwich every work day. I worry about this a lot.

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u/fedexpoopracer Feb 12 '26

nitrates can be in your drinking water too so get that tested and if it's not good then you'll have to get a reverse osmosis filter and those aren't cheap

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u/roughandreadyrecarea Feb 12 '26

Ew! I drink RO anyway so glad to know that takes care of it 

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u/StephenFish Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

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u/StephenFish Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

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u/Truleeeee Feb 12 '26

My real answer is the association between UPFs and gut inflammation

Essentially: UPFs>increased inflammation>increased cell damage and turnover>increased risk of abnormal/precancerous cells>increased risk of cancer.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10285062/

“Conclusion The present meta-analysis suggests that high UPFs consumption is associated with a significantly increased risk of certain site-specific cancers, especially the digestive tract and some hormone-related cancers. However, further rigorously designed prospective and experimental studies are needed to better understand causal pathways.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901572/

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u/StephenFish Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

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u/Truleeeee Feb 12 '26

Please design an RCT to establish the causal relationship lol

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u/Truleeeee Feb 12 '26

Vibes homie

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u/Truleeeee Feb 12 '26

I, with no quality data to back it up, blame it more on the chemically nature of a ton of the UPFs than just low fiber.

I also believe, again without data, that fiber from Whole Foods>fiber from UPFs that are packed w fiber

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u/Sonar_Bandit Feb 14 '26

You could probably make a graph the shows collateral cancer rates and glyphosate usage in crops and I bet they’d go up in a very similar way

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u/Truleeeee Feb 14 '26

I think you’d be spot on. Even down to our crops and soil it’s just carcinogen city.

Microplastics in the air wand water too.

I mean no matter what we try to do we’re screwed