Letter: Food for thought

In YOUR report on bowel cancer (12 September), neither Mark Flannagan, chief executive of the charity Beating Bowel Cancer, nor Ian Finlay, a consultant colorectal surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, directly mentions the elementary fact that unwholesome food and drink additives come into direct and lingering contact with the bowel, so people who consume these are “asking for” bowel cancer.

The key clause in Mr Finlay’s discussion of the healthier statistic of Stirling over Falkirk that the latter “might have more social deprivation” is roughly translatable to “urban and suburban poor folk ten to eat and drink more rubbish”.

KATHLEEN MANNING SRN SCM

McVeagh Street

Huntly, Aberdeenshire