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Put that Coke down!
Sorry, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. But if you’re a daily soda drinker – like some 60 percent of Americans – you need to cut back. That daily soda could help give you pancreatic cancer.
A long-term study in Singapore showed that people who consumed two or more soda pops a week had a 87 percent increased risk of getting pancreatic cancer as compared to people who did not drink soda. Pancreatic cancer begins in the pancreas, an organ that creates digestive enzymes and hormones. Then it kills you. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancers is only around five percent.
In a nutshell, there’s a definite link between pancreatic cancer and soda consumption. Studies are never 100 percent conclusive, of course. A lot of people will choose to ignore this study and keep drinking too much soda. Pancreatic cancer is a possible result, but it is somewhat unlikely.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of anti-intellectual folks who will tear apart the soda/pancreatic cancer study, saying that it’s irrelevant, false, or even un-American. Never mind that the researchers carefully controlled for age, smoking, diabetes, and BMI, or the fact that they followed over 60,000 people for 14 years.
It’s hard for me to understand how people will deny that drinking a great deal of soda pop can hurt your body. I’ve linked to an example on the left. It’s interesting to me that the reporter makes mockery of “alarmist headlines” that link soda and weight gain.
I agree with the statement “body weight results from complex interactions between metabolism and lifestyle.” But I think it’s dangerous and unethical to tell your readers to ignore the soda/obesity link. Thankfully, I haven’t found any pancreatic cancer/soda consumption deniers. Yet.
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