Soft Drink Danger "Pancreatic Cancer"

What about if served osteoporosis, heart disease, immune deficiency with a side of diabetes? The good news is that now you can increase your chances of contracting these diseases, while eating a delicious drink so acidic, which corrodes the lining of the digestive tract! All this and might even make you fat while doing so. What is this miracle drink? 

If you have not already guessed, I’m talking about soft drinks, soda, pop with poisonous gas that we are hopelessly addicted with and considerable to deny their effects on our health. While we still believe the disease just happens and has nothing to do with diet and lifestyle. Cures come with a friendly smile of doctors; however, we ignore the real causes and still get sick. 

A study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention earlier this year found that people who drink two or more soda per day increases their risk of pancreatic cancer by 87%. The study includes over 60,000 men and women in Singapore Chinese Health over 14 years and found 140 of these patients had pancreatic cancer.

Sugar is the main culprit to get the majority blame. Research, a few months ago, was found that fructose causes pancreatic cancer tumour cell multiplication and grows faster than sucrose. Pancreatic cancer tumour cell fed both glucose and fructose in this study to have two types of sugar in different ways. Although the tumor cells were found to thrive on glucose, fructose increases the rate of multiplication. 

And not only tumor cells prefer it, in cellular processes fructose also helps cancer cells to use glucose and fructose more quickly. Since soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, which contains more fructose than sugar does, it makes sense that the pancreatic cancer cells would play a supportive environment to regular consumers of soft drinks.

Interestingly, the study found that the pure fruit juice does not have the same effect on the pancreas as the sugar sweetened drinks. According to Dr. Pereira it seems reasonable to us because it is served in small doses, and has less sugar and is natural sugar. Fruit juice does not increase blood glucose and insulin in the blood as much as the soft drink does.

Back to current research - the author Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota said: “The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth.”. Again, this makes sense. Eat sugar and the pancreas will release insulin. By eating too much sugar something can go wrong in the pancreas. Although some criticized the investigation, saying red meat, or smoking may be responsible, but these factors are not directly related to the pancreas in the same way. There is no evidence, but it says.

I do not think that anyone reading this article are really need another reason to stop drinking pops, but you can put it as a notch in the ‘cons’ column. And do not think you are intelligent because you are drinking the diet versions. This is still poison, just another type of poison that will kill you in a different way.