Drinking soda linked to pancreatic cancer: Study - Edmonton Journal

[nickerjones]

Incinerator i read something today that said beer has now been found to be good for your bones........


and if saying," I wanna coke" them asking "what kind" I respond with " DIet Dr Pepper" is illegal then Guilty as Charged!!! I live in Oklahoma !!!

however I do know that in Calgary when I order I just say" ummm and a Large Diet Pepsi." I got burned by the coke thing along with dirty stares and comments when I asked them to change to what I wanted plenty of times.

[Hack&Lube]

In Singapore, do they use real sugar in their soft drinks? (I'm not going to say pop or soda!)

Or is it like the US where sugar tariffs mean that soft drinks all use high-fructose corn syrup (said by many to have negative health effects)?

Do you really say: "I want a coke" and then you specify: "Sprite" or something in the south? That seems crazy. Can't you just say "I want a Sprite"?

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Who are the people in Grande Cache, Indian Head and Brandon that call it "coke"??

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

[troutman]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

I had no problem either. I like saying "soda" and after moving back to Canada it just stayed with me.

Don't old prospectors call it sody-pop?

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Well I guess I'm dead shortly.

I'm pretty sure I should be on my third pancreas.

I'm quitting.

Done. (not just because of this)

[nickerjones]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Do you really say: "I want a coke" and then you specify: "Sprite" or something in the south? That seems crazy. Can't you just say "I want a Sprite"?

Yes but more often than not it usually goes

Waitress : What would you like to drink? Coke?
me: Yes that sounds great
Waitress: What kind?
Me: OH! ummmm Diet Dr Pepper!

[Jake]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

So did these people also smoke? Do drugs? Eat bad, not exercise? ect ect...

A sample size of 60,000 would theoretically even out all of those factors.

[TheSutterDynasty]

Originally Posted by Jake

A sample size of 60,000 would theoretically even out all of those factors.

There was no random assignment.

This was quasi-experimental; they just followed people.

Who do you think lives a healthier lifestyle: people who drink 2+ pops a day, or people who do not?

This is a correlation study; it's correlated that if you drink 2+ pops a day, you have a higher chance of pancreatic cancer, it cannot be said that drinking 2 pops a day is what leads to the cancer.

[MelBridgeman]

may as well just say drinking sugar, eating high amounts of sugar will prob have the same effect...not to mention people who drink that much pop for that long, prob are overweight and with diabetes too...

file this under another useless scientific study

[MoneyGuy]

I own Coca-Cola shares. Drink up.

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by troutman

Latin America = Gaseosus

It can also be refrescantes or the generic bebidas.

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty

There was no random assignment.

This was quasi-experimental; they just followed people.

Who do you think lives a healthier lifestyle: people who drink 2+ pops a day, or people who do not?

This is a correlation study; it's correlated that if you drink 2+ pops a day, you have a higher chance of pancreatic cancer, it cannot be said that drinking 2 pops a day is what leads to the cancer.

I think its a case of A->B->C, instead of A->C.

Diabetes increases your risk of pancreatic cancer 2 fold, and the number one cause of Diabetes is........soft drinks.

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty

There was no random assignment.

This was quasi-experimental; they just followed people.

Who do you think lives a healthier lifestyle: people who drink 2+ pops a day, or people who do not?

This is a correlation study; it's correlated that if you drink 2+ pops a day, you have a higher chance of pancreatic cancer, it cannot be said that drinking 2 pops a day is what leads to the cancer.

Technically maybe true, but they did control for things like smoking and diabetes in the analysis, and there is a plausible mechanism for the high sugar intake from pop affecting insulin and the pancreas, leading to pancreatic cancer. This is pretty much as good as evidence for this sort of effect can get really - it's not something you can really do a randomized control trial for. I believe it's still not as big a risk factor for pancreatic cancer as smoking though.

[troutman]

How about sports drinks?

[dissentowner]

I should be dead then by now.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

Two soft drinks A WEEK!? I have averaged probably 1.5 drinks of pop (usually Coke) a day my entire life since the age I started drinking it (5 maybe? definitely before I started school).

If this study has any truth to it at all, I should have been diagnosed with diabetes by my 7th birthday.

[onetwo_threefour]

Nm

Lame attempt...

[Shin Pad]

Wow - it's a good excuse to switch to beer

[driveway]

Well, I'm screwed; time to start smoking.

[GreenLantern]

Might as well go for a Soda nobody hurts and nobody cries..

Might as well go for a Soda nobody drowns and nobody die--- err wait..

I can't believe that Kim Mitchell lied to us!

I am starting to doubt whether these "patio lanterns" were in fact "stars in the sky"... I hope he enjoys all of his millions on his throne of lies!