Cancer in young generation is increasing

A japanese physician in the US has reviewed a few epidemiological studies regarding the occurence of cancer among young generation. 

Here. 

 https://www.mricg.info/single-post/cancer-before-age-49-increases-by-80-over-30-years-revealing-why-younger-cancer-patients-are-on?utm_campaign=00052660-c7c0-4517-9e01-a5d1b72ac75c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail_lp&cid=cb295832-5da4-4df1-9b7b-5c4884619177

These studies amaze me a lot. Those young generation have been believed to be far from cancer. Developing cancer should be their own problem but also a burden to the society. The patients might need social security for some time in stead of contributing to the society as work force.

Caricinogenesis is not a simple process but a multiple factor event. The cause of this increment of cancer patients among youth should be carefully investigated. As a general rule, they should avoid alcohol, tobacco or prcessed food etc and should be encouraged to do regular exercise and to take balanced kinds of food including vegetables. HPV vaccine should be given them to avoid cervical cancer.   

I am concerned about exercise deficit. One of the latest issue of JAMA has published a large scaled paper regarding the relationship between exercise and mortality rate. Of course, regular exercise lowers the mortality rate in every generation whatever the cause might be. It has not investigated on the reason of exercise deficit. I suspect the digitalization of life may deprive them of time/chance for exercising. The virtual world smartphone might make them feel they are living in the real world. 

I really hope some researchers would investigate what brings this low physical activity and on possible relationship with their immersion in the internet. 

It is a kind of self-reflection for myself as a recent post says. Discard smartphone and go outdoor for activity!

Miraculous potatoes

We have already had frost early in the morning for the past couple of weeks. Most vegetables except for onion, spinach or broccoli etc would wither by this time in a year. Potatoes are not exception for that. I have harvested all of the fall potatoes.

But there are a few plants of potatoes standing up and even blooming with green leaves at a corner of the garden farm. They are spontaneously growing there every year. 

                           

They were descendants of potatoes discarded there years ago. With continuos cropping such as potato, there could be proliferation of bacilli harmful to it or deficit of certain nutrients, and eventually the growth of the vegetable won't be good there. It is famous as monocropping difficulty in farming. I am intrigueg how this plant of potatoes have not only evaded it but also grown even better than the other ordinarily planted ones. A big puzzle! 

With seed plants, as organic farming texts say, seeds contain microbiome within them, which derive from the soil the seed cropped plants. That is a reason why certain plants could grow better at the place wheere seeds were cropped. I am wondering, even though potato's "fruit" is not really fruit but a portion of root, if the same kind of mechanism is working with this potatoes in our garden farm. How could they be free from monocropping disorders? 

I am only amazed at this potatoes. It is beyond my understanding, and possibly, beyond knowledge of science. I would keep them at that place and see what happens with them next year. 

Our garden farm is almost in hibernation. I still have works to build the farm beds for next season.   

PS;When I looked at the potatoes right now, all of them were withered. The chillness was more than they could put up with and/or it was the time for them to die, I don't know. However, they have definitely lived much longer in this cold weather than the other ordinary plants and it was programmed in nature.

Free from intoxication of the internet for a day

 Yesterday, the internet was shut down at our home. Asked the provider, I was told that the carrier was responsible for that. They promised us to pass along the problem to the carrier today. No reply from either the provider or the carrier this morning. While communicating with the personel at the provider customer center for a few times, I felt desparate at solving the problem. But, all of sudden, while talking to him on the cell phone, without intervention by the carrier, I found the internet line was restored. The same kind of trouble with the internet might happen in the future. How should I do in such a case? I knew the customer center personel was not capable of finding solution to such a problem. I felt the infrastructure of the internet was not very resilient in our country or, at least, with the provider we contract with.

Without surfing the internet last night, I felt a bit helpless being shut down from the information sources. I have spent the evening hours reading a paper on psychopathology, given by a senior psychiatrist, an alumni of the same medical university. In the new classification of diseases, ICD11, he seemed to emphasize humanistic or philosophical psychopathology reinstated its seat in psychiatry. When I was a med student, I was going to major in psychiatry and might have been involved in such a change. 

In the rest of night hours, I listened to the whole nocturnes by Faure. Thirteen of nocturnes were composed spreading from his young age to the last few years in hi life. It is interesting how his style has been changed during that long span of life. Simple monophonic pieces like that of chopin to complicated pieces featuring more of dissonance. Consistently, there seems a feeling of elegy among most of them. Nr1 is typical for elegy beginning with downward melody accompanied with simple harmony in bass. Nr11, composed for a memory of Noeml Lalo, is an elegy itself. Another characteristic of them is that the later pieces sound abstruse in a sense with dissonance use. I used to be surprised the same in the piano part of the 2nd movement in his piano trio. 

Anyway, being free from obsession to wander around the internet, we could spend time for valuable things. The internet gives, on the other hand, a tool to communicate with others like this blog. I won't go away from this intoxicated world. It is still necessary for me to spend some time away from it, though.