Here's another reason to not drink soda: It might give you cancer, right in the pancreas. "People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests." There are some questions about the methodology (and some nasty insinuations that maybe smoking will give you pancreatic cancer, which WAS NOT PART OF OUR DEAL, nicotine—I signed up for lung cancer only!) but I think from now on I'll stick with tonic or seltzer for my mixers.
What about people who drink 6 or 7 Diet Cokes a day?
A friend of mine wants to know.
Restless Bladder Syndrome
Mixers? What are these things you call "mixers"?
As your Physician must inform: If sugars are culprit, then tonic also proscribed. "SODASTREAM" NICE AD PLACEMENT. http://tinyurl.com/yfsky62
"The study was well designed but smaller than some previous studies that did not find a link between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and pancreatic cancer." (Emphasis mine)
Well, thankfully, Dr. Pepper and I only acknowledge large studies that do not make wild accusations.
I get this, in theory, but sometimes I need caffeine. Desperately. What caffeinated beverage should I be drinking? Black tea? Coffee obviously kills you as well.
Most plants are loaded up with natural pesticides designed to kill you, the grazer feeding on them. Therefore, all plant-based foods/drinks are out. I recommend adding a caffeine supplement to your bacon chili cheeseburger.
I like the cut of your jib.
No, coffee offsets the effects of booze! Viva coffee!
NB: Do we really need Pancreases, anyway?
Coffee lowers your risk of suicide and stomach cancer. It's a wonder drink!
Two sodas a week?! Do I look like I live in a monastery?
Two sodas: It's what's for breakfast.
I'll stick with the glass as my mixer.
I'm going to ignore this just like I ignore all the salt warnings
Just so I'm clear, the fact that my dad has pancreatic cancer + the fact that I drink a soda a day (plus 2 coffees!) means that I should just finish up my will and wait for death? Okay!
Ooh, this is nice though! From the Wall Street Journal's health blog mailbag thingie:
Q: In your column on the health pros and cons of coffee on Dec. 29, I'm surprised you didn't discuss the effect of coffee on pancreatic cancer. Isn't that a major concern?—A.K.
A: A New England Journal of Medicine study in 1981 did find that patients hospitalized with pancreatic cancer were more likely to be coffee drinkers than other patients. Earlier studies noted low rates of pancreatic cancer in Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, who generally don't drink coffee. But several major studies since then find no such association. In 2001, the American Cancer Society concluded there was no relationship between pancreatic cancer and consumption of tea, decaffeinated coffee or caffeine from soda or food.
Just FYI, pancreatic cancer is not one of the ones that has a heredity factor. Just because your dad has it (sorry to hear it, mine did too) in no way means you are any more susceptible to it than anyone else.
A little something small to make you feel a tiny bit better (if that is possible).
My dad drank a SHIT-TON of coffee.
Interesting. The doctors at Hopkins actually took some of my DNA and did a history on me because they're looking into the hereditary thing. But thanks. He's made it 2+ years since diagnosis, so we kinda feel like we're already getting free time.
On a side note, I've noticed that only fat people drink diet soda's. They also remain fat.
You have not seen the elusive creature, "Skinny Bitch who exists solely on Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights?" They're fairly common to most urban areas.
It seems in Boston there aren't so many of those types of bitches. Especially as regards the smoking. We are a dying breed.
I am not fat. I do not smoke.
I do drink many, many diet cokes in lieu of actual food, so that may account for a few things.
Didn't mean to imply that you, personally, were skinny/bitchy/a smoker! I just know several people (and knew a lot more in college) who fit that mold.
Phew! I am left only to concern myself with cancers/strokes caused by the drinks themselves.
What Balk says: "Here's another reason to not drink soda …"
What I hear: "Here's another reason to drink anything other than soda …"