Cancer’s Sweet Tooth
Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for his work on sugar feeding cancer. Very few people paid attention then. And now: articles like the one below come out each month, but hardly anyone cares. I hope you do.
High daily intake of sugar-sweetened beverages linked to 85% greater risk for liver cancer
Healio Minute, August 08, 2023
Postmenopausal women who drank at least one sugar-sweetened soft drink daily had an 85% higher risk for liver cancer. High intake also was associated with 68% greater risk for chronic liver disease mortality, compared with those who drank no more than three beverages per month.
“Intake of sugar-sweetened beverage, a postulated risk factor for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, may drive insulin resistance and inflammation, which are strongly implicated in liver carcinogenesis and liver health,” Longgang Zhao, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told Healio. “Meanwhile, approximately 65% of adults in the U.S. consume sugar-sweetened beverages daily.”
Zhao L, et al. JAMA. 2023;doi:10.1001/jama.2023.12618.
