Aerated Drinks Intake Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

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.”

Type II diabetes, a disorder of blood sugar levels and insulin under-activity, has tentatively been linked to pancreatic cancer. The researchers speculate that elevated blood sugar levels associated with soda drinking and the associated increase in insulin levels prompt pancreatic cells to divide abnormally.

Despite the results of the study, some other researchers are not completely alarmed, as they believe that individuals consuming soda would have other issues that may also predispose you to pancreatic cancer.

The beverage industry took an objection to the study and said that the research overlooked various other studies, which found no association between soda consumption and pancreatic cancer.

Source:  http://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/news/20100208/pancreatic-cancer-linked-sodas