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  • No questions regarding the populational risks as the small percentages would shine with the big numbers.

    WHO's recommendations remain the same for decades indeed: lower processed and red meat, eat chicken and fiber.

    What's your point exactly?

  • Like I said, it may be a scientifically interesting study, but the broader audience can't take anything from it but anxiety.

    a diet that reduces your chance of cancer by 20 or 30%, say.

    That would be significant, but probably not today. The lifetime risk of dying as a pedestrian in a car accident is around 1 in 100, so mitigating other risks is not an option for now

  • Like... is it written to excite anxiety?

    Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003. I like how precisely we can measure it using regular statistics, but what does it tell to a human being? To me it tells nothing about hotdogs

  • One of the few things I liked about Russia is the healthcare system.

    If you have money, and I don't mean like you're in the top 1% or 10%, you just have an average salary, you can get any doctor any procedure within 2 days. Neck MRI is $120; ultrasound is about $30; regular appointment is also $20-30; PET $400.

    When it comes to the free healthcare tier, it's kinda tricky. In an emergency you could be delivered either in a new medical center with boxes and wifi, or they could throw you in an old hospital where various infections were living for centuries and doctors just hate this place and everyone who's around.

    Haven't been there for almost 5 years, if we exclude a short two month period where I haven't interacted with the healthcare system. I heard that due to sanctions there's a lack of basic medicine right now: antibiotics, infusions, and even paracetamol.

  • Like... yeah?

    Tried to open to a girlfriend about a sensitive topic - she got the ick.

    Tried to make an appointment with a psychiatrist - got a very hateful rejection because of my place of birth.

    Damn, even when I try to uplift a friend, I use phrases like 'you got this before, you'll get it now'.

    I don't know how to be a man, mentally