And how would the other side of the coin, the vast increase in life expectancy fit in?
Many folks have been sold down the river, aspiring to it 
Don’t sell your soul to rock 'n roll. 
I am not convinced that there is a vast increase in cancer. People are living longer, cancer is not a single disease but it is largely a disease of old age, a century ago people didn’t live long enough to get cancer.
If cancer is increasing vastly why is life expectancy increasing also?
There’s a massive increase in diabetes type II in the UK, which has been directly linked to processed food & couch potato lifestyles. That combined with heart disease is more or less prevented by lifestyle changes in younger adults.
We have done well to make smoking unfashionable/banned. Fewer seem to be vaping too. I’ve noticed alcohol is a big factor too (since I stopped drinking).
I’m not sure how many in the UK die as a result of a combination of Diabetes and Heart disease, but at least 3 guys in my life in their 50s have died recently as a result. Ref cancer, I’m more worried about toxins and chemicals in everyday life. More so than food.
I’m not sure of the difference of cooking from fresh to prevent disease, if you put just as much saturated fat in and fry up chips from scratch after peeling the spuds yourself, it’s no healthier.
Not easy to get the balance right and live a life of denial in order to live longer. They say fasting a day or two a week is good. Wonder whether anyone here has tried that.
I’ve never been that careful about diet. I suppose it could be said that I would have been healthier than I am if I had been more careful. Who knows for sure? Too late to be worrying at 80 I guess. I eat a fair bit of fresh fruit and veg but there are some very tasty so called ‘junk foods’ around that I eat as well.
Hi Annie’S
Very well said,