According to a new study, drinking a little as two sodas a week can increase your risk of developing pancreatic cancer by 87 percent. The University of Minnesota School of Public Health followed over 60,000 participants and evaluated their dietary intake, to include soda and juice consumption. Their findings show a link between drinking at least two sodas a week increased a person's risk of the disease. Diet sodas and juice did not.
The reason for the risk increase? Some researchers are hypothesizing that the sugar content is the culprit. More sugar equals more insulin. Remember that insulin is produced by the pancreas in response to increased blood sugar. In some studies, insulin has been shown to support cancer cell growth. Juice, while high in sugar, is hardly consumed in large amounts like soda. You never see people drinking 64 ounces of apple juice in one sitting (a la Super Big Gulp) like you do with soda.
Should You Stop Drinking Soda?
More studies need to be done to confirm the link between soft drinks and cancer. However, drinking lots of soda is not good you for many other reasons. Tooth decay, risk of being overweight and obese through excessive empty calories and high sugar content, and its possible link to osteoporosis and diabetes are just a few reason why you should limit your soda intake.
As with any comparisons with the right statistics one can make anything correlate with anything. That is not to say that there can be all sorts of possibilites within the area of diseases but it seems in the last several years researchers have ramped up their analysis of just about everything probably to fund future paychecks. I have worked in the field of research and I have seen how researcher can manipulate stats if they want the right outcome. You can actually show black eyed peas causing impotence if you use the right stats. Statistics can show relationships but not cause and effect. Mammon-ology is the American way to create anything. When it comes to money people will do or say just about anything. The bigger the paycheck the bigger the lies.
I never believe anything like this…
“The reason for the risk increase? Some researchers are hypothesizing that the sugar content is the culprit. More sugar equals more insulin.”
BS! Does insulin cause cancer? No. Carcinogens do.
Also, there is no data given in this article, which could be looked at to prove where the real consistency occurs. There are many different reasons why soda drinkers could have an increase in pancreatic cancer – they are around carcinogens more, the majority are at a different age level that in general have more risk to pancreatic cancer, or even simple causes such as unclean soda cans, bad genetics per individual, etc.
BS: Please do your own research before you claim this is false. How do you get type II diabetes? How is type diabetes related to the pancreas? Has elevated insulin levels been linked to endocrine issues? Are you telling me that soda doesn’t contain any carcinogens (just to name one is Red40… which you drink a lot)? Are you saying that every can of soda we drink is “unclean”? You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about it…
This is one of the best break through’s which can severely help reduce the mortality rate of pancreatic cancer. You probably wouldn’t even know that pancreatic cancer is pretty much the most fatal cancer one can get (5% survival rate – 10 years).
Sorry, but I not see how drinking soda can increase risk of pancreatic cancer. Is here any real facts?
Everything contain carcinogens it seems these days. They find something wrong with everything. Chuckles the Clown could have conducted this study for all we know. Several years ago I heard on the news that a study had shown that exercise causes cancer. Vitamin C causes cancer. Milk causes colon cancer. Vitamin E shortens your life. Years ago Johnny Carson in his monologue said the only thing they haven’t found to cause cancer is Twinkies. You would need a computer program to track all the caveats depicting all the dangerous daily encounters. But before you could finish reading them all you would be insane.
And what is the unit of a soda? What exactly does “two sodas” mean? Two 2-litre bottles? Two 335 ml cans?
Seems like a very important piece of information to be missing from the article.