Um, Thanks, But No Thanks...
Whoops, here's another don't. One I can live with, as long as I don't think too deeply about its larger implications. Soft drinks. Who needs them? They're chemical concoctions heavily laced with sugar. Kid stuff. Unhealthy kid stuff. Yet everyone seems to enjoy them; virtually everyone. Go into any supermarket and invariably the carts will contain soft drinks to haul home to the waiting crowd.
The corrosive quality of the ingredients of something like a cola drink are well known. It always fascinated me that people would deliberately pour that junk into their bodies. There are so many other liquids to quaff, why soda pop? It's wet and thirst-quenching to be sure, but so full of garbage that our bodies don't need it's just not a sensible choice.
Especially with all the alternatives, ranging from all manner of fruit juices to milk products of an astonishing variety, and liquid soy products. And, of course, tea, and coffee. Both of which are said by those who claim to know because of their degrees in the nutritional sciences, to actually be good for you. Oh yes, there's alcohol too, and as long as it's used moderately, well and good.
Would you eat or drink something that gives you a hearty-good chance of shortening your life in a rather painfully abrupt manner? Statistics are telling; about 3,900 Canadians were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. A type of cancer difficult to detect because of symptoms that are so likely to lead diagnosis long after the cancer has spread.
And the symptoms don't read like a leisurely walk in the park: nausea, vomiting, pain in the upper abdomen or upper back, describing the carnage being done to one's body in the later stages of infection and spread. "By the time you do detect this type of cancer, it has often spread to different parts of the body, making it difficult to treat".
Not good news. Risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer include smoking, diabetes and obesity, according to a senior manager of cancer control policy at the Canadian Cancer Society. So what's this all about? This new conclusion rating soda pop as enemy number Incipient Grief?
Well, this week a new study was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention which found that people consuming 3 or more sugar-sweetened drinks a week had a 57% greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who drank say, one soft drink per month.
The study concluded that drinking two or more soft drinks a week may nearly double an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Ingesting an excess of sugar, it appears, increases insulin levels. And the researchers conjectured that sugar in soft drinks represented the culprit. High insulin concentrations are thougt to encourage the growth of pancreatic cancer cells.
Whoa! There's a whole lot of people out there drinking pop. It's become an accepted way of life for a huge proportion of the population. In the country that gave the world Coca Cola, that drink is often imbibed from breakfast to lunch to dinnertime and snacks in between. And what about people who eschew soft drinks?
People say, who prefer to take their liquid delights in the form of tea and coffee. And drink pots of both each and every day. And add dollops of sugar to sweeten their tea and coffee. Sugar, lots of it, right?
The corrosive quality of the ingredients of something like a cola drink are well known. It always fascinated me that people would deliberately pour that junk into their bodies. There are so many other liquids to quaff, why soda pop? It's wet and thirst-quenching to be sure, but so full of garbage that our bodies don't need it's just not a sensible choice.
Especially with all the alternatives, ranging from all manner of fruit juices to milk products of an astonishing variety, and liquid soy products. And, of course, tea, and coffee. Both of which are said by those who claim to know because of their degrees in the nutritional sciences, to actually be good for you. Oh yes, there's alcohol too, and as long as it's used moderately, well and good.
Would you eat or drink something that gives you a hearty-good chance of shortening your life in a rather painfully abrupt manner? Statistics are telling; about 3,900 Canadians were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. A type of cancer difficult to detect because of symptoms that are so likely to lead diagnosis long after the cancer has spread.
And the symptoms don't read like a leisurely walk in the park: nausea, vomiting, pain in the upper abdomen or upper back, describing the carnage being done to one's body in the later stages of infection and spread. "By the time you do detect this type of cancer, it has often spread to different parts of the body, making it difficult to treat".
Not good news. Risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer include smoking, diabetes and obesity, according to a senior manager of cancer control policy at the Canadian Cancer Society. So what's this all about? This new conclusion rating soda pop as enemy number Incipient Grief?
Well, this week a new study was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention which found that people consuming 3 or more sugar-sweetened drinks a week had a 57% greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who drank say, one soft drink per month.
The study concluded that drinking two or more soft drinks a week may nearly double an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Ingesting an excess of sugar, it appears, increases insulin levels. And the researchers conjectured that sugar in soft drinks represented the culprit. High insulin concentrations are thougt to encourage the growth of pancreatic cancer cells.
Whoa! There's a whole lot of people out there drinking pop. It's become an accepted way of life for a huge proportion of the population. In the country that gave the world Coca Cola, that drink is often imbibed from breakfast to lunch to dinnertime and snacks in between. And what about people who eschew soft drinks?
People say, who prefer to take their liquid delights in the form of tea and coffee. And drink pots of both each and every day. And add dollops of sugar to sweeten their tea and coffee. Sugar, lots of it, right?
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