WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just before National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month begins in March, a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult poll found that nearly half of Americans aren’t aware that eating processed meat increases the risk of developing colorectal cancer.
“in English” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Any number of illiterate adults is a problem worth solving, but someone who can read in their native language is not illiterate. Teaching adults to read is an entirely different process from teaching adults how to read a foreign langauge.