Those who drink sugar-sweetened carbonated drinks were 87% likelier to develop pancreatic cancer than those who don’t.
Soda Intake Linked To Pancreatic Cancer reveals the study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention .The study was a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and National University of Singapore, begun in 1993 and evaluated 60,524 men and women who enrolled in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, for up to 14 years, looking at their diet and whether they got cancer.
“Soft drinks are linked with a higher risk of pancreatic cancer, which may be working through effects of the hormone insulin,” said Noel Mueller, lead author of a study. Claiming that the findings are biologically plausible, Mueller further adds: “We believe that because Singaporean adults have a lot of the same mannerisms as Western countries, which is a tendency to eat fast food and also go shopping, one could say that these findings may be generalizable to other Western countries.”
