Study links sugary soft drinks to pancreas cancer

[onehandle]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.

People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found.

Sugar may be to blame but people who drink sweetened sodas regularly often have other poor health habits, said Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota, who led the study.

"The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth," Pereira said in a statement.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_cancer_pancreas_sodas

[thunder rising]

1. BS! There is no sugar in soft drinks anymore ... it's all HFCS.

[valerief]

2. Bingo! nt

[thunder rising]

3. Note the study was of 60,000 people in Singapore ... other countries don't have the sugar tariffs

like the US. So, they have sugar in their soft drinks.

However, the good Dr did not make that indication in his statement and inferred it's conclusion on the US.

Free trade? phuck, only as long as it screws labor.

[valerief]

7. Ah, right! Thanks. nt

[seleff]

5. Huh?

HFCS is a misnomer. It should really be high glucose corn syrup as it's higher in glucose than is natural or even processed sucrose. Anyway, it's all simple sugar with a high glycemic index. What do studies say about 3-4 sodas with splenda or aspartame, by the way?

[trotsky]

8. Sorry but you are misinformed.

Table sugar is digested into a 50-50 mix of glucose and fructose.

HFCS (the most common variety) is 45% glucose, 55% fructose.

But you are correct on one thing: it IS all simple sugar and something we should try to minimize in our diets as much as possible, no matter what the form. It makes no sense to demonize HFCS.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

13. UK study found those eating/drinking HFCS...

... to have developed fatty deposits on their inner organs. None of those using only SUGAR in food and drinks had any type of fatty deposits on their inner organs. HFCS messes up your liver, for one, as it takes 2-3 times longer for your liver to process it because of the molecular structure of the HFCS.


Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6954603.ece>

I have been avoiding any and all sodas with HFCS in them, Pepsi, Mt Dew and Dr Pepper all have been making soda with real suger, aka "throwback" recipes. And I haven't felt this good in ages. BTW, it is 6 degrees F outside with a -21 degree F windchill right now, and I am about to go fire up the Arctic Cat and head to the store.

[trotsky]

18. No, the study concerned consumption of pure fructose.

Ready your article again... carefully.

[shanti]

22. it's absolutely HFCS

and i will believe this to my dying day. it started about 1980 with the "new coke". so MANY newly diagnosed diabetics...:(

read up on the herbal sweetener stevia. the feds and artificial sweetener corps. were successful in stonewalling the entrance into the US of this herb, which has been used safely for millenium by many cultures. very eye opening.

[seleff]

17. HFCS all monosaccharides

All of your statements are correct. I was meaning to point out the HFCS, if I read correctly, has all of the sucrose already broken down to monosaccharides. Although digestion of sucrose to fructose and glucose in the stomach would seem to be rapid and complete,it is one difference. The few abstracts I looked at were inconclusive regarding the significance of the 55%-45% fructose/glucose ratio compared to digested sucrose. I agree it does seem hard to believe that HFCS is any more worrisome than the same amount of sucrose.

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[WriteDown]

14. Yes, and that is not sugar. Just like starch.

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[gauguin57]

21. Fructose = sugar.

It's just not white sugar from the sugar bowl.

[Abq_Sarah]

25. HFCS

Is more of a threat to the liver, I'd think. Fructose doesn't cause the same level of insulin release as glucose since it's metabolized differently.

[canoeist52]

4. What about high fructose fruit drinks?

Were they included in the study?

[jmowreader]

15. I don't think they were

What could be interesting is to compare the prevalence of pancreatic cancer in people who drink lots of sugared sodas against its prevalence in people who drink lots of juice but no soda. If they were the same, it would be the sugar at fault but if the soda drinkers were higher, it could be something else. There are two chemicals in soda--gum arabic and phosphoric acid--that don't get used in juice. We know there's a tendency for soda to strip calcium out of the bones to balance the calcium-phosphate ratio in soda drinkers. Why couldn't it cause cancer too?

[mainer]

6. Two or more per WEEK? Doesn't sound like much.

Especially when quite a few American kids drink that much every day.

[Lance_Boyle]

20. I know people who drink more than that every HOUR. n/t

[pipoman]

9. And why would

"Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota, who led the study", choose to conduct the study on 60k people in Singapore? I don't suppose that the people who contracted this type of cancer had anything else, besides 2 sodas per week, in common..

[Alcibiades]

12. Probably because the data was available

For any researcher, availability of data is a big concern. You go to where the data is.

[Jennicut]

11. I can't have sugared/ fructose corn syrup soda being a diabetic. I guess that is a good thing.

[shanti]

23. try stevia

it's a natural and safe sweetener. i'm also diabetic and use it daily.

[L0oniX]

16. Aspartame!

[pipoman]

19. No thanks, I'll take my chances with sugar or hfcs...n/t

[BrightKnight]

24. It is possible to live without candy water. - n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

26. no wonder Obama wants junk food out of schools - sodas are slow killers based on this story

this is important and I hope they look back on this as another way to help our health care system do a better job of saving lives - through lifestyle knowledge and adjustments. If this study is true, I'm guessing it is time to put these out of the reach of kids at school without parents' supervision.