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Will Sugary Drinks Give You Cancer?
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/TDcZ0q1apbs
It’s all over the news. Sugar-sweetened drinks increase your risk of cancer. Well let’s take a closer look at the data.
The study comes from Sorbonne Paris’ Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center, and it reviewed health and dietary records from over 100,000 participants with a mean age of 42 years and followed over an 8 year period. The investigators looked at some 3300 food products.
Drinking just 3 ounces more 3 z.of sugary drinks a day increases the overall risk of any cancer by 18% and breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 22%. Drinking the same amount of 100% fruit juices increases the risk of any cancer by 10%. Let’s look at the fine print.
But let’s look at the fine print. Carbonated, sweetened drinks like Coke or Pepsi did not increase the risk. Artificially-sweetened drinks, carbonated or not, did not increase the risk. Drinking sugary drinks did not increase the risk of lung cancer, colorectal cancers, pancreatic cancer, or prostate cancer.
Don’t forget that sugary drinks will make you fat, and obesity has its own cancer as well as diabetes risks. As always, moderation is the best policy. If you like the sugary taste, stick with artificially-sweetened drinks or that occasional fruit juice.
Chazelas Eloi, Srour Bernard, Desmetz Elisa, Kesse-Guyot Emmanuelle, Julia Chantal, Deschamps Valérie et al. Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort BMJ 2019; 366 :l2408
#Sugarydrinks #cancer #dietdrinks #artificialsweetening #breastcancer
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AMVidcast: https://youtu.be/TDcZ0q1apbs
It’s all over the news. Sugar-sweetened drinks increase your risk of cancer. Well let’s take a closer look at the data.
The study comes from Sorbonne Paris’ Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center, and it reviewed health and dietary records from over 100,000 participants with a mean age of 42 years and followed over an 8 year period. The investigators looked at some 3300 food products.
Drinking just 3 ounces more 3 z.of sugary drinks a day increases the overall risk of any cancer by 18% and breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 22%. Drinking the same amount of 100% fruit juices increases the risk of any cancer by 10%. Let’s look at the fine print.
But let’s look at the fine print. Carbonated, sweetened drinks like Coke or Pepsi did not increase the risk. Artificially-sweetened drinks, carbonated or not, did not increase the risk. Drinking sugary drinks did not increase the risk of lung cancer, colorectal cancers, pancreatic cancer, or prostate cancer.
Don’t forget that sugary drinks will make you fat, and obesity has its own cancer as well as diabetes risks. As always, moderation is the best policy. If you like the sugary taste, stick with artificially-sweetened drinks or that occasional fruit juice.
Chazelas Eloi, Srour Bernard, Desmetz Elisa, Kesse-Guyot Emmanuelle, Julia Chantal, Deschamps Valérie et al. Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort BMJ 2019; 366 :l2408
#Sugarydrinks #cancer #dietdrinks #artificialsweetening #breastcancer