According to a new study published in the NHS II (Nurses’ Health Study II), a large prospective study conducted since 1989, women who consumed more than two servings of sugary drinks per day, measured at 350 milliliters per serving, were two times more likely to be diagnosed with early-onset colorectal cancer (EO-CRC) before the age of 50. This is more than 2.2 times higher than women who drink less than one serving per day in adulthood. The study, conducted by the St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, found that adult women who drank more than two servings of sugary drinks a day had a 2.5 times higher risk of developing cancer than those who drank less than one serving a week. More than two times the risk of cancer than those who drank less than one serving per week. The risk of cancer increases by 16 percent with one more serving; one serving a day during adolescence will lead to a 32 percent higher chance of cancer before the age of 50. However, the study also found that replacing sugary drinks with artificial sugar substitutes, coffee, low-fat or whole milk in adulthood can reduce the risk of cancer by 17 to 36 percent.
Science has long confirmed that sugary drinks are harmful to the body, including increasing obesity rates and causing type 2 diabetes. In a paper published in the British journal Gastroenterology (Gut) on Saturday, the researchers tracked the dietary and medical records of 95,464 female caregivers from 1991 to 2015, and further confirmed that sugary drinks are bad for health through questionnaires completed by 41,272 subjects in 1998 who looked back at their own dietary status between the ages of 13 and 18.
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However, some scientists who were not involved in the paper expressed reservations about these findings because only 109 of the subjects were diagnosed with EO-CRC, and only 16 of them drank more than two servings of sugary drinks a day, and only six of them had the disease. They pointed out that eating red meat and processed meat, inadequate fiber intake, smoking, drinking and being overweight may increase the chance of developing bowel cancer, but it is difficult to find out the real cause of the disease.
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