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| Roman Bystrianyk |
 Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:23 pm |
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"Sugar-packed diet may boost pancreatic cancer risk", Reuters UK,
November 29, 2006,
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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-30T034141Z_01_TON013034_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-SUGAR-CANCER-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-C1-Headline-6
Eating lots of sugar and sugar-sweetened foods could increase a
person's likelihood of developing cancer of the pancreas, by far one of
the deadliest types of cancer, Swedish researchers report.
Dr. Susanna C. Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and her
colleagues found that pancreatic cancer was significantly more likely
to strike men and women who added the most sugar to their food and
consumed the greatest quantities of soft drinks.
The researchers followed 77,797 men and women aged 45 to 83 for an
average of about seven years. Those who reported eating five or more
servings of added sugar daily, for example sugar added to tea, coffee
or cereal, were 69 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer
than those who never added sugar to their food or drink.
People who consumed two or more servings of soft drinks a day had a 93
percent greater risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who
abstained from these beverages. Eating sweetened fruit soups or stewed
fruit increased risk by 51 percent.
But there was no association between sweets, marmalade, or jams and
pancreatic cancer risk, possibly because these foods are eaten less
frequently and in smaller quantities, Larsson and her colleagues write.
Factors involved in the loss of sensitivity to the blood-sugar
processing hormone insulin, such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity and
diabetes, have all been tied directly to pancreatic cancer, a disease
that kills the vast majority of people diagnosed within five years,
Larsson and her team note in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Eating too much sugar could therefore conceivably boost pancreatic
cancer risk by putting greater demands on the pancreas to produce
insulin while reducing sensitivity to the hormone, as well as through a
number of other potential mechanisms.
"Given the practical implications of these findings and the poor
prognosis of pancreatic cancer, further research on sugar and
high-sugar foods in relation to pancreatic cancer risk is warranted,"
the researchers conclude.
SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2006. |
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