Modern Living Making Us Ill

When i was younger there used to be adverts with 1 in 4 people getting cancer but now the odds seem to be 1 in 2 and whereas it always used to be something older people got, it seems to be hitting younger people these days.
Studies in Scotland, Sweden and New Zealand has found that Cancer was being diagnosed more often than in previous years among people under 50 and when they broadened out the research, they found that  young people around the world are getting many different kinds of cancer at alarmingly high rates and asked 'Why is cancer increasingly striking people in the primes of their lives?'
Globally, diagnoses and deaths related to Cancer in the under 50's rose by 79% from 1990 to 2019, according to a recent study published in the medical journal BMJ Oncology with it rising most commonly in the breast, colon, rectum, pancreas, and stomach and while the majority of cancer sufferers are over 50, the under 50s group is the only age group for which the risk is rising.
The rise in diagnoses is partly comes down to advances in our ability to detect and diagnose Cancer but Scientists say there is a more complex web of factors in modern life and lifestyle choices affecting younger adults.
Classic risk factors such as drinking and smoking do not seem to fully explain the recent rise in Cancers as even young, nonsmoking women, for example, are being diagnosed with lung cancer in strangely high numbers and theories include ultra-processed foods, red meat and unhealthy fast foods contributing to weight gain.
Other researchers blame the microplastics littering our environment and leaching into our food and water supplies or one of any number of potential health hazards in the modern world  but they are agreed that something in our Modern World is making us seriously ill.