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- fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+81Find me something that doesn't cause cancer. Then we will talk.
- frieddonuts, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32Man that photo is the worst possible grapefruit picture. Did they intentionally make them look like giant fat maggots?
- Kamael, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24Chuck Norris.
- Boshow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14I read the exact opposite about grapefruits not too long ago. Marked as BS.
- jeffeb3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10It would be much better to insert a picture of breasts.
- Kr4t05, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10This just in: People who breathe are 100% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than people who don't breathe. AIR CAUSES CANCER!!!
- sarazen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Since this is a study of older women, I have to wonder if the results are effected by women eating more grapefruit because it is a great diet food, and women tend to carry more fat as they age.
- appletalk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Correlation does not imply causation ?
- strOphe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Why is it the fault of the grapefruit and not the insecticides sprayed on it? Subtle chemical interplay with our biology means synthetic ingredients (even "safe" ones) will always have unnoticed or unintended effects on a portion of the population. My chemist father told me this years ago.
- OkinawanMatt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7All studies (articles) like these are conducted by "scientists" - that's the term for statisticians/scientific technicians/psychologists. These are not "real" scientists. They do not run tests in labs, they do not study the biochemical interactions, and they do not know what chemical components are involved. These "scientists" are people who just look for trends, then get a accurate enough statistic to report it in whatever journal will accept the article. Although these "scientists" tend to jump the gun and assign blame to the wrong reasons, they help the other "real" scientists by making us focus on the alleged cause of things such as cancer, and then rule them out or rule them in. They usually work under the supervision of "real" scientists (PhD). Please note that mainstream media does not differentiate between these "scientists" and us "real" scientists.
- evil-doer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6grapefruit are not a melon.. so why would you do that?
- atbnet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Major_HIV-associated_malignancies - atbnet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I didn't know grapefruits were artificial foods.
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I don't know anyone who eats 5 grapefruits a day
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Ban That *****... get it off the streets before the kids are into it.
- Eleo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4So basically everything both causes and prevents cancer simultaneously. I think I will just avoid obvious carcinogens and go about my life. I think I'd rather just get cancer than constantly worry if the -fruit- I'm eating is going to eventually kill me.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Air does cause cancer, if you live in an industrialized city. A half million a year if you live in China.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Can guys eat grapefruit?
- lewikee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4How do you know the opposite one you read not too long ago wasn't the one that's BS?
- palmdoc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Growing old is linked to cancer
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The benefits out weighs the risks I think in fruits and vegetables 99% of the time
- atbnet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Men can develop breast cancer too.
- bobcatred, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2fpcyber never specified food, only "something."
- ngmcs8203, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Or scientist studies that disprove other scientist studies.
- blaaguuu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Men can indeed develop breast cancer - but in this specific case, i doubt its as simple as eating grapefruit = breast cancer. I am sure there is some complicated reactions going on in the bodies, which could have to do with hormones or something that would make it only a risk to females.
- syukton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Water. Regular old H2O. And don't try to be sneaky and say that some water actually has tritium instead of hydrogen in it, therefore making it radioactive and potentially cancerous. I'm talking about plain, simple, pure water.
- john2kx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1good call... this is like when they injected lab rats with large amounts of saccharine every day, and the rats got cancer.. Then people were saying saccharine causes cancer.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1*****, just like everything else your not suppose to eat. Newsflash, scientist discover eating will kill you. Reality, they really don't have a ***** clue.
- Doughd54, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It probably isn't the grapefruit, but the Artificial sugar that most people that are trying to lose weight (all women) put on their grapefruit
- DjOverEZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Did they ever think that being a post-menopausal woman causes breast cancer?
- AlphaEta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Is it just me, or is that the least appetizing photo of grapefruit you've ever seen?
- speede06, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3breast milk
- Jade10145, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3FYI-Personally, I smoke cigarettes while I am eating grapefruit that way the cancers cancel each other out..
- finista, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Know what? I vividly remember an article a couple years ago stating that eating grapefruits actually lowers the risk of getting a certain cancer (don't remember which).
- Samji, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oxygen ages cells so maybe it *is* a factor in cancer causes.
- freecreature, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1grapefruits aren't melons. :)
- kanimara, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I always wonder if when articles like this come out there are some sort of secret war going on.
I imagine that there is a sinister group of cereal producers looking at their sales slumping, reasoning that grapefruits are taking away from their breakfast market. So they decide to put out this study saying grapefruit causes cancer, to combat all the studies saying grapefruit is healthy. - starlabs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1BREAKING! Living linked to cancer!!
- christophla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The more people try to be healthy, the less they ever seem to be. Just have a cigarette, drink a beer, some wine, eat a hamburger and enjoy life...
- MadScientist420, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1smoke a joint, chill out. Not worrying about how you are going to die can go a long way.
- wolferz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1First off, every thing can IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF DEVELOPING cancer. However, certain things greatly increase the risk that a particular person will develop cancer.
Secondly, not everyone who does a thing that increases the likely hood of developing cancer will develop it, hence the term likely hood. A 99% increase in likely hood means that 1 out of 100 people that have this risk factor will in fact NOT develop cancer. Thank the human races wildly varying genetic makeup for that.
Third, things like (clean) air consumption have some where in the region of .0000001% chance of leading to cancer. By comparison a 30% chance is a damn high likely hood.
Forth, your example correlating air to breast cancer is inherently flawed both as an argument against other arguments linking XX risk with YY cancer. Look up the term "double blind study." Most respected test use some variation of double blind. In this case however, a methodology as simple as the age old scientific method could be used.
Fifth, in all sciences and in medical applications of chemistry it is not uncommon to acknowledge that human understanding of the universe is still quite infantile and that the failure to take into account even one unknown factor could turn a scientific theory or even a scientific law which has survived hundred of years and which much of our civilization and technology is based on into a laughable fallacy.
Finally in the medical world there is another practice called CYA (cover your ass). This is achieved by never claiming anything to be absolutely true even when the evidence shows that it is.
Based on the aggressive wording of your argument I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you smoke and don't like it when people tell you your gonna end up with cancer so you hide behind the word "could" as your excuse not to listen to reason. Am I close? - dodus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I know, I hate it when my grapefruits are small.
- Writher, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I love eating pure grapefruit - unsweetened. Last year I ate 2 per day. Was great.
- maanwi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1A know property of the fruit is that it increases absorption. If these women were taking prescription drugs or even vitamins, the grapefruit could've been creating megadoses in their bloodstream. Was that accounted for in this study?
- jgzman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I should point out that, statistically, non-breathing persons do not develop new cancers, and existing cancer quickly becomes dormant.
- widoka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1so much for "vividly" remembering
- londubh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The story would have been so much more interesting if eating grapefruits made women's breasts the size of grapefruits. Cancer sucks.
- silencerider151, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Apparently I'm the only person on Digg who loves grapefruit. Mmm so juicy and sour.
- HsoKinees, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1looks like small segments of a mandarin(orange) >_>
- seandfeeney, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1or is it that more women eat grapefruit
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