A while back, an honest dentist published an article about soda pop corroding teeth enamel which led to cavities along with refined sugars. To counteract the problem, he advised patients to drink soda pop with a straw. I guess he did not see a problem in softer tissues down the gullet being impacted even worse!
I say make the straw long enough to come out of your butt.
References
Soft Drinks Once Again Associated With Premature Death
Becky McCall, Medscape September 04, 2019
“Consumption of sweetened soft drinks is associated with an increase in all-cause deaths, according to the largest pan-European study to date to investigate this association. The investigators assessed total consumption of soft drinks by examining the intake of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages separately.
The study, led by Amy Mullee, PhD, University College, Dublin, Ireland, was published online September 3 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
“The striking observation in our study was that both sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened soft drink consumption were positively related to risk of all-cause death,” said senior author Neil Murphy, PhD, researcher at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
Compared with those who consumed fewer than one glass per month, those who drank two or more glasses per day of artificially sweetened soft drinks had a 26% higher risk for all-cause mortality (P < .001); those who drank sugar-sweetened beverages had an 8% higher risk (P = .004).
One specific association was a more than 50% increase in cardiovascular disease deaths linked with artificially sweetened drinks but not with sugar-sweetened ones — the latter observation was somewhat of a surprise, Murphy noted.
“The results are supportive of public health campaigns aimed at limiting the consumption of soft drinks” and encourage healthier alternatives, say the researchers.
“Where you can, stick with water and unsweetened tea or coffee, and keep soft drinks as a treat,” noted Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, in a statement.
Studies investigating the association of soft drinks with health outcomes are accumulating, and Medscape Medical News asked Murphy about the value of having so many similar studies.
He stressed the importance of conducting multiple high-quality epidemiologic studies of this nature.
“Firm conclusions can never be drawn from one single study such as ours. Instead, it is better to assess a possible association by using results from multiple epidemiological studies, ideally in different populations and/or countries,” he observed. “If consistent results are seen across such studies, this gives us greater confidence in the associations found.”
In their article, the authors note that previous studies of the relationship between soft drinks and mortality have shown inconsistent results.
However, certain findings from the current study reflect those found in prior studies, including results of two large US-based studies published earlier this year.”
