Another Reason to Avoid Soda

Excessive soda consumption contributes to obesity and diabetes. But now a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, suggests that consuming as little as two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer almost twofold compared with people who did not drink soda. According to Mark Pereira, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, “The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth.”