Sodas & Cancer

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Thank Heavens they have discovered this connection.Obviously they will now move quickly to regulate the soft drink industry or even close it down like they have with tanning.

Sugar Fuels Tumor Growth, Says Major New Study


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Katie Drummond Contributor

(Feb. 8) -- Sugary soft drinks drastically increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a long-term study of 60,000 people in Singapore.

A research team at the University of Minnesota followed thousands of men and women participating in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years. At the end of the study, published this month in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, the team found that those drank two or more soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
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University of Minnesota researchers found that people who downed two or more soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer.


Dr. Mark Pereira, the study's lead researcher, warns that the findings likely apply to the United States and other industrialized nations as well. "Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent health care," he said. "Favorite pastimes are eating and shopping, so the findings should apply to other Western countries."

Oddly enough, those who drank fruit juice, which can have as much sugar as soda, didn't have the same cancer risk. Pereira suggests that soda drinkers might have poor health habits, which exacerbate their risk of illness. Of those studied in Singapore, individuals who drank soda were more likely to smoke and eat red meat -- two lifestyle factors already linked to cancer.

The connection between sugar and pancreatic cancer makes sense: insulin, which helps the body digest sugar, is made in the pancreas. Researchers suspect that sugary soda interferes with the body's insulin levels, which then contributes to cancerous cell growth in the pancreas.

Diabetes, another illness in which the body's insulin production is compromised, is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer. The onset of diabetes later in life can also be an early symptom.

Determining the cause of pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives a year: 230,000 people are diagnosed worldwide each year, and the American Cancer Society estimates that only 5 percent survive for five years.

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Katie looks like a crack addict!

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"Pereira suggests that soda drinkers might have poor health habits, which exacerbate their risk of illness. Of those studied in Singapore, individuals who drank soda were more likely to smoke and eat red meat -- two lifestyle factors already linked to cancer."

Is it the soda or did they just crowbar whatever food product they want to regulate and tax next?

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Poor ol' Aunt Betty. I thought she looked pretty healthy at last July's family reunion. I know her appetite was good because she ate 4 of Uncle Tom's belly-buster burgers. Aunt Betty would take 2 or 3 big bites than wash it down with a mountain dew. She only stopped long enough to have a smoke between each one. Shoot, she even told me he could eat a couple more but didn't want to make a pig of herself. Afterwards she was nappin' and enjoying a little sun. She even told me once she "laid in one of them there tanning beds". Following week the woman just dropped dead. It was probably the uv light that killed her.