It's not controversial to say that cancer is a disease of old age, and that rates of cancer are higher now because people are living longer.

That makes a lot more sense than a lot of the nutrition bullshit that gets posted to HN.

I'm kind of baffled at the downvotes here, is this not a legitimate question or method of debate? I'm not spewing tropes or memes like on reddit. I thought here it's discouraged to downvote because you disagree as well as reddit, but it seems the intellectual levels are even lower than reddit.

Oh, I see, you downvote people other than the hivemind comments so that they never reach the levels to downvote themselves. I get it. Kinda sad and pathetic, but whatever, Internet numbers don't mean quite that much to me. It's additonally sad that I don't have any discreditation to my comment. You know you are wrong, but you downvote me anyway.

We're not really living much longer. More people are reaching old age, pushing average life expectancy up.

Remember that whenever you hear a curious claim like "But back then, 40 was considered elderly!" Never was.

Children are obese because they aren't chasing chickens around the yard.