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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Why are they limiting it to sugary soft drinks? Ever had one of those overly sweet Starbucks drinks? Kids start drinking them at an early age.
I wonder whether the data controlled for alcohol consumption.
I remember when they told us that coffee was going to kill us.
That was about two weeks after they told us a cup a day was good for us..
Total BS.
It would be impossible to complete an effective study of such without doing it in a non-Western country not saddled by the effects of SAD.
That stated, there are differences between sweeteners, and I’m not clicking to a bogus study to find out if they analyze said differences (doubtful).
My guess is that there is an even higher R-squared of liver disease with cats and cardbordeaux feminism than with drinking Pepsi.
We drink only filtered water, wine or bourbon. 😉
Given how few cases there actually were, if they didn’t control for alcohol consumption, that could have done it.
I live on Coca Cola-—full strength. Also whole milk. Am 83.
Used to drink RC Cola..same deal.
With the heat we have been having & working OUTSIDE to remove a forest of Russian Thistles (Tumbleweeds), I had had to add Powerade so I can stay hydrated.
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