Does Drinking Soda Lead To Pancreatic Cancer?

Is our sugar intake high enough that we should be concerned that sugar can lead to diseases such as pancreatic cancer.

In Asia, they may believe that this is true, the Cancer Control Program at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, District of Columbia reported that there was no statistically significant association between juice consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer, where regular consumption of soft drinks may play an independent role in the development of pancreatic cancer, according to a Singapore Chinese Health Study and reported by the Cancer Control Program at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, District of Columbia.

This is stating that the sugar in fruit juices does not contribute to pancreatic cancer, but the sugar in soft drinks does. According to the Coca-Cola Distribution Bottling in Indonesia National Office, who once stated that the human body can't tell the difference between the natural sugar you get from fruit juice and that added to soft drinks.

An Italian Case Control study of 326 patients, median age of 63, had their dietary habits assessed with a food frequency questionnaire. The study supports an inverse association between fruits and vegetables and pancreatic cancer risk, and it confirms a direct relation with meat causing pancreatic cancer.

The increased risk for table sugar suggests that insulin resistance may play a role in pancreatic carcinogenesis.  JADA, the Journal of the American Dental Association doesn't support the idea that sugar contributes to cancer, but JADA does support the idea that children who consumed more soft drinks, relative to milk and 100% fruit juice, as they grew older were at a greater risk of developing dental caries.

According to the American Heart Association, simple sugars, or sugars occurring naturally naturally in foods such as fruit (fructose) and milk (lactose), are quickly broken down and provide a very fast increase in blood sugar, while complex carbs, take longer and cause blood sugar to rise more gradually. Complex carbohydrates are found in foods such as starchy vegetables (corn, potatoes, peas, etc.) breads, cereals, rice and grains. Complex carbs are broken down into the simple sugars during digestion, which causes them to be processed more slowly in the body. The American Heart Association does not differentiate between sugars in soft drinks and sugars in fruit juices, unless the sugars in fruit juices are not natural and have been added during processing.

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