Yoli Focus: More Studies on the Negative Effects of Soft Drinks

Here's a recent article from ABC Online highlighting yet another potential hazard of consuming soft drinks on a regular basis.

Soft Drinks Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Study Shows Those Who Often Drink Soda Have a Higher Pancreatic Cancer Risk

By CHRIS EMERY
Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Feb. 8, 2010

Regular consumers of sugary soft drinks are at higher risk for pancreatic cancer than fruit juice drinkers or the general population, a new Singaporean study has found.


Study of soda drinkers in Singapore suggests they have a greater risk of cancer.
Chinese men and women living in Singapore who drank two or more soft drinks per week were 87 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer after the researchers adjusted for factors such as smoking, according to the report published Feb. 8 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

"In this large prospective cohort of Chinese men and women in Singapore, those who reported regular soft drink consumption were at increased risk of pancreatic cancer when compared with those who largely abstained," Mark Pereira, of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues wrote. "There was no association between consumption of juice and risk of pancreatic cancer."

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With all the research and evidence available on how bad for your health soda really is, it makes me think that people are continuing to consume these beverages out of lack of awareness. But you can make a difference. If you want to help change the drinking habits of people you know, people you care about, then help us here are Why Blast Caps by passing this article along.


**Special thanks to Michele Rosborough who had originally shared this article with me**