You may want to stick with water.
, researchers from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, among other institutions, looked at a group of more than 120,000 participants across two prospective cohort studies in the United States. They compared data about the incidence of colorectal cancer and death from the disease to information about how much participants were consuming sugar-sweetened beverages and how much fructose was in their diet.
In other words, drinking these beverages was linked to a higher chance of getting proximal colon cancer and of dying from those cancers, especially when the formation of the tumors is already well under way. While the researchers note that further studies are needed over long periods of time, sugary soft drinks certainly seem to worsen colorectal cancer tumors.
You don't need to worry as much if you used to drink a lot of soda as a child, but you've been drinking it less often in your adult life. The study found that recent SSB consumption was linked with increased risk in a way that past consumption was not. Still, if you're drinking soda every day, you may want to cut back.
"Our results provide further support for current dietary guidelines and policies to limit SSB consumption to improve the health of the general population," study authors noted. Plus, colorectal cancer isn't the only kind of cancer that sugary beverages have been linked with. Previous studies have shown that they're also associated with a higher risk of getting
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