Cancer Truth - Step out of the box
Drinking an average of five sodas a week doesn’t sound
like much… but what would you say upon learning that they
nearly double your risk of getting pancreatic cancer — one
of the deadliest of all malignancies?
This shocking statistic about soda comes from a study at
the University of Minnesota. Researchers analyzed medical
records and diet histories of 60,524 Asian adults over a
14-year period (the records came from the Singapore
Chinese Health Study, the Singapore Cancer Registry and
the Singapore Registry of Births and Deaths), comparing
consumption of soft drinks (in one group) and fruit juice
(in another group) with the incidence of pancreatic
cancer… and found that the incidence was 87% higher among
those who drank soda.
The researchers established that this link was independent
of other risk factors
– such as smoking, body weight, type 2 (adult-onset)
diabetes, caloric intake and the consumption of red meat.
Having established that lifestyles in Singapore are very
similar to those in the US, lead study author Noel
Mueller, MPH, research associate at the Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University
Medical Center in Washington, DC, assured me there’s
nothing uniquely dangerous about soda in Singapore — it’s
the same stuff people drink here. Acknowledging that there
are some genetic differences between the populations, he
told me that he doesn’t think that those are as
significant as the fact that soda drinkers likely don’t
have the same healthy habits as fruit juice drinkers.
Not So Sweet
Researchers hypothesize that sugar is the culprit, with
12.5 teaspoons of sugar (usually in the form of
high-fructose corn syrup) in a 16-ounce, 200-calorie
sugar-sweetened soda, on average — that’s enough to
trigger the pancreas to produce a surge of insulin. Dr.
Mueller theorizes that this habitual “blasting” of the
pancreas with so much sugar may stimulate cancerous tumor
growth over time. Though fruit juice is also high in
sugar, researchers think that the nutrients and fiber in
juices may buffer any unhealthy impact.
The resulting advice to limit sugar intake is predictable,
of course — but I’m guessing that even those of us who
already do that have vastly underestimated the potential
damage that even a few sodas a week can do. This is no
time for sweet talk: Stay away from sugary soda.
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