Sugary drinks and foods increase your pancreatic
cancer risks
The results of a recent study links sugar consumption to pancreatic cancer.
This connection emerged as
part of an eight-year dietary survey of some 80,000 healthy patients that ended
last year. During that time, 131 patients had developed pancreatic cancer, and
the excessive presence of sugar in their diets had elevated their risks
substantially. The sugary foods that increased a patient's risk of pancreatic
cancer, by the numbers:
·
Creamed fruit (a
food resembling runny jam) = 50 percent
·
Adding sugar to
coffee at least five times a day = 70 percent
·
Drinking fruit
or soft drinks at least twice a day or more = 90 percent
No wonder, the cancer/sugar
connection is a strong one: Cancer unseated heart disease last year as the
number one killer of Americans alongside the epidemic of obesity that's
spreading throughout the world. Moreover, diabetes, a disease that goes
hand-in-hand with obesity, doubles a patient's pancreatic cancer risks
That said, the number of
deaths associated with pancreatic cancer is small (32,000 annually in the
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