Could this 1 ‘healthy’ food actually be giving you cancer?

My wife has reached a challenging spot, health and fitness-wise.

She’s now at the age (early 40s) when women are told to start eating a ton of protein.

She sent me a funny meme the other day of a woman talking about health “advice” for this particular demographic.

The Insta mom sarcastically recounts the amount of protein she’s supposed to eat while also remaining in a caloric deficit … which she implies is all but impossible.

So my wife does what a lot of people do in that spot: she eats a lot of low-to-no fat cottage cheese and yogurt and drinks protein shakes.

All of this has me a little worried.

Last week I stumbled across news of a doctor studying the skyrocketing rates of colorectal cancer in relatively young people.

And according to said doctor, there’s one ingredient in many of the foods we consider “healthiest” that might actually be giving us cancer.

We know generally what foods to avoid to stay healthy … but what about the bad ones we don’t see coming? (Licensed by the author under the Unsplash+ License)

2 possible culprits for colon cancer crisis

Dr. Maria Abreu is a Miami gastroenterologist who recently received a grant to study why more and more young people are being diagnosed with colon cancer.