Pancreatic cancer linked to high sugar intake
In a new study, the incidence of pancreatic cancer was increased when cancer sufferers were found to have an abnormally high sugar intake. The Swedish study looked at the diets of almost 80,000 men and women between 1997 and 2005 in the study.Out of this group, a total of 131 people developed pancreatic cancer, which is a highly-deadly form of cancer that is very hard to treat. The researchers then asked all participants about the consumption of foods -- particularly beverages -- that had large sugar concentrations and found out that the group of people who said they drank fizzy or syrup-based drinks twice a day or more had a 90% higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer compared to those participants that never drank those products.
If you can, drop soft drinks out of your daily regimen or at least decrease their consumption -- all that sugar is not good for anyone really (except the soft drink companies and their bottom lines).
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11-08-2006 @ 7:33PM
P. E. Bell said...
My mom died in Aug of 04 of this horrid cancer at age 72. They misdiagnosed her in the previous March with diabetes. However, she never drank pop, but she DID drink large glasses of orange juice every day... That's the only thing they made her stop doing when they thought she was diabetic. I know that the huge amounts we are given in restaurants is not good because of so much sugar. When I was a kid, (I'm now 51), most orange juice glasses held only 4 oz. but there is simply a problem of very large portions of sugary drinks nowadays. If sugar is a cause, then we need to seriously look at this burgeoning cancer in our population.
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11-08-2006 @ 9:45PM
m witham said...
I have never felt the need to add my comments, but this summer pancreatic cancer took the life of my 46 year old aunt. She was the youngest of twelve (yeah, that's right) siblings, and the first one to pass away. I remember when I was younger that she nearly always had a glass with ice and Dr.Pepper soda. I would never have never connected that with her death. I guess that soda sounds pretty innocuous compared with say alcohol or drugs. One more argument for moderation.
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11-29-2007 @ 9:48AM
mirchy23 said...
My 51 year old husband passed away in 2005 from this horrible disease after being diagnosed just 3 weeks before. He did not eat sugar and did not drink soda. He exercised 3 days a week and had a complete physical every year. I just dont think anyone knows how this happens.
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