Cancer findings a bit of a joke

Editor: Johnathan Meyers | Tactical Investor

Is anything in cancer findings real?

This is one of the top stories for the week. It could prove to be of interest to you, so we are posting an excerpt of it below, and then we will continue with the main story.  In some ways, today’s stock market is like MUSK; the guy is erratic and TSLA’s erratic stock price action clearly validates this point.  He was caught smoking weed on camera, and he called Vernon Unsworth a “pedo guy”; in 2018 he stated he wanted to take Tesla private and was sued by the SEC for securities fraud.  Last but not least, Tesla is still losing money selling cars. Hence, the logical conclusion would be that one should short the stock, and if you did that, you would have lost your shirt, pants and your knickers.

In 2020, bears lost north of $8 billion as a result of their shorts. The recent parabolic spike in Tesla’s stocks price was due to a massive short squeeze. On the same token, this market should have crashed long ago, and those that bet against it have paid dearly. The moral of the story is simple; when it comes to the market, the focus should be on the psychological state of the masses and not on logic.  In Tesla’s case, if one applied Mass Psychology, one would have noticed that the stock has a cult-like following and secondly, the bad news was not having a massive impact on the price of the stock. Sure the stock let out a large dose of steam, but that is natural for a stock that has been on a tear. Trading The Markets & Investor Sentiment

A new study of 100,000-plus French adults has found that those who eat a lot of processed foods and drink a good deal of sugary drinks are more likely to develop a variety of cancers than those who, say, eat healthy food.

What? You don’t say.

You mean eating chemicals and preservatives and high-sugar crap isn’t good for the body? And neither is sucking down the same through a straw dipped in a high-processed can of soda?

And here we all thought that bright orange snappy cheezy-flavored coating on our crunchy snacks was an organic condensed carrot or something.

“After studying more than 100,000 adults for years, their results showed that eating processed food is more closely linked with cancer risk than one’s age, sex, body mass index, height, level of physical activity, smoking and drinking habits, calories consumed, or family history,” the study found, Business Insider wrote.

Hmm. Turns out, the world’s most harmful foods aren’t really foods at all. They’re balled up, frozen, clumped-together chemicals — and mystery of all mysteries, they’re actually unhealthy.  Full Story

Are Cancer findings a bit of a joke?

The results, in the British Medical Journal, showed that if the proportion of ultra-processed food in the diet increased by 10%, then the number of cancers detected increased by 12%.

During the study:

  • On average, 18% of people’s diet was ultra-processed
  • On average, there were 79 cancers per 10,000 people each year
  • Upping the proportion of processed food by 10% would lead to nine extra cancers per 10,000 people per year

The researchers concluded: “These results suggest that the rapidly increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods may drive an increasing burden of cancer in the next decades.”

But they said the findings need to “be confirmed by other large-scale” studies and research was needed to establish what could be behind the link. Read more

 

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