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Category: Health Issues

Colorectal Cancer Is Killing 20- to 30-Year-Olds. We Now Have One Clue About Why

Historically, colorectal cancer has been an “old people’s disease” relegated to those in middle age or beyond. But younger people are now coming down with this cancer, and researchers think they know why: obesity. Read more.

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Related Articles & Publications

  • The Human microbiome in jeopardy.

    Our microbes are vital to our lives, but they are in jeopardy due to various modern day factors including overuse and misuse of antibiotics and Caesarean sections.

  • You are what you eat

    When we go to the grocery store, we go with a mission to pick up food for ourselves and our families, but too often we buy food that is tainted with antibiotics, anti-enzymatics, herbicides, pesticides and other chemicals.

  • How to resist antibiotic resistance

    Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist focused his research on killing bacteria, thus making a discovery in 1928 that changed the world and saved lives: penicillin, the first modern day antibiotic.

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