Posted on 08/09/2023 1:09:26 AM PDT by thegagline
Older women who drink just one sugar-sweetened beverage a day have a “significantly higher” risk of developing liver cancer and of dying from chronic liver disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.
The research found that postmenopausal women who consumed at least one sweetened soft drink or fruit drink daily were 1.75 times more likely to be diagnosed with liver cancer and 2.5 times more likely to die from chronic liver disease compared to those who drank three or fewer of these beverages a month.
“We know from a body of evidence that it is worth thinking twice before choosing to drink sugar-sweetened beverages every day,” Dr. Pauline Emmett, senior research fellow at the University of Bristol, told the Science Media Center in the UK.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School observed a group of nearly 100,000 American women between the ages of 50 to 79 for around 20 years.
While approximately 65% of US adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages daily, only about 7% of the female study participants consumed these drinks daily. Over 13% drank artificially sweetened beverages each day.
Over two decades, 207 women had developed liver cancer and 148 died from chronic liver disease.
The women who drank the artificially sweetened beverages did not have a much higher risk of developing liver problems, the researchers found.
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No.
Not because I don’t care or I’m interested.
You never mentioned it before around the dinner table.
The nice thing about how much sugar I consume is that there isn’t a lot of difference 99% of getting liver cancer and 99.5% of getting liver cancer.
You are right about that… liver failure is a a suffering matched by little else.
Harvard has lost all credibility. They churn out left wing, America hating, mask wearing paranoid pansies.
I never make it to the dinner table because I drink my breakfast and lunch….
*My original post was a quote from the movie, Dr Strangelove
𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭?
Does it have anything to do with your precious bodily fluids, or Purity of Essence?
My distilled alcohol is at least aged. I wonder what nutrients are extracted from an oak barrel....
Hehehe. The older I get, the less I care. I have made my peace with God and accepted Jesus as my savior. Life is good, despite the evil demon democrats, but I have great comfort knowing I have faith, and those evil demons live miserable lives and will never experience a single Plank instance of enjoyment or comfort.
It’s a little late for me to worry about it, since sugar sweetens my coffee and sweet tea every day. But I also drink lots of water, soooo..
Is there nothing that won’t kill you? I have the beginning of liver failure, but it’s not caused by sugary drinks. The good news is I got colitis later in life and I may die from old age before it fails
I feel the same way, I’m not scared to die.
These studies are just marketing schemes for either (Or both) corporations selling certain kinds of products and pharmaceutical companies. Also cash flow for the researchers/resume enhancers. We all die, genetics plays the biggest role in that.
Not world-wide medical community pier reviewed. As if I would ever trust any medical research opinion from anyone, ever again after the COVID plandemic solely to lay the process foundation to steal an election.
“I may die from old age before it fails”
Hmm . . . I’ve heard of “old age”. What causes it?
Yep, they never put out the exact number due to scare tactics.
Yep, and these “researchers” are playing the age-old game of citing percentages with no context. They never mention the absolute risk, which is tiny, nor the insignificant difference in that risk with or without sugar consumption. They do this with everything because scary percentages like “1.7 times higher risk” get everyone riled up and willing to shower them in more research funding.
These are very small numbers.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2807987
The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
George Carlin
The risk odds are absurdly low.
207 out of 100,000 women developed liver cancer over a 20 year period.
That means the global middle age and elderly female risk for liver cancer was around 0.2% - a fraction of 1%.
7,000 women drank a sugar sweetened beverage every day.
Their risk for liver cancer was 2.1%.
If you really enjoy your sugar flavored drink each day, are you going to stop because of a 2.1% risk?
Unless you are obese, forget that noise!
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