5 sodas a week = 87% increase risk in pancreatic cancer - 2/8/2010

[katakisLives]

Stuff this there is NO WAY I'm gonna stop drinking soda's I probably had the equivilent of two soda's today alone!

[sammysamsoccer]

yeah but that 100 bags of sugar taste wayy better in pop

[badmudda]

we cant really live if were too afraid to die....not saying live to eat, but fuck it everything is "linked" to cancer nowadays...

[katakisLives]

@badmudda There's a new cancer scare practically every week!

[FootbalFutbolS0ccer]

jus drink vitaminwater and be quiet.. u dont need to have hr long discussions about soda.. we know its bad

[Chocobo012]

pretty much what i got from this was. being overweight = pancreatic cancer

not sodas

[nctwinsmom]

main stream sodas are no longer made with real sugar. real sugar is not the culprit - this high fructose crap is the killer!

and how funny this other lady made sure to add, not diet sodas?!

diet sodas are just as bad because of aspertame!

[tzeqin]

@nctwinsmom - I second that, the jury for long-term study on fake sugars is still out. Not getting fatter does not equate to ergo healthier. Aaa *tears hair.

[ed11561]

@nctwinsmom Real sugar is bad- cane sugar- beet sugar-HFCS is 10 times as bad H& aspartame & sucralose is 100x's worse. they are killing all of US.

[gr33nlion]

@nctwinsmom let em know.

[CanyonOasis]

@nctwinsmom sugar and HFCS are basically metabolically identical. They are both as bad as each other. HFCS fructose/glucose ratio is 55/45, while sugar is 50/50.  There is next to no difference between them.

[Uatu84]

sugar= sugarcane which is NOT in 90% of soda products....the real problem seems to be HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP which IS found in almost every mainstream food in a normal grocery store. It HAS been proven through a number of studies to increase cancer rates in rats and cause "abnormal weight gain" along with other strange symptoms.

[icelez]

what pop with SUGAR in it? oh the juice stats are different "well it's interesting in this study"

you mean substitutes like HFCS or "diet" e coli crap(aspartame)

"5 sodas a week" what sodas? oh "regular soda" what sodas again?

[Gameboob]

you'd have to be retarded to listen to the beverage industry when they say you can stay healthy while drinking their sugary beverages.

[StabbyRaccoon]

Soda is terribly unhealthy but I dislike these kinds of studies that try to slap a statistic on a correlation. People read it and think "5 sodas a week increases the risk of pancreatic cancer by 87%" and that's simply not accurate because oftentimes a (seemingly) obviously unhealthy food is a marker for other unhealthy habits that account for as much or even more of the statistic than the food in question,

Either way sugar is terrible and the less the better. I just dislike the headline,

[stopbeingcowards]

why its fact... face it... the facts that is... face da facts jack.... black.. hat nat... jim bob fat

[rootvalue]

@StabbyRaccoon That is very true. It also depends on the population of the study, but moreso how the American Association for Cancer Research distinguished each participant--for example, we don't know if, say, two similarly 'healthy' people were taken and one of them drank 5 per week, nor how many weeks they did so, as opposed to whether it was 'healthy' participants versus, as you mentioned, those with an overall unhealthy lifestyle. Thumbs up for the critical thinking.

[tzeqin]

@StabbyRaccoon - I know, but not all tests get to go double-blind gold standard. The reporter than did a disclaimer 'Not a perfect study...but' ... Oh wells, oversensationalization for the greater good may just work the panic button for obesity is now a gloabl epidemic.