Soft Drinks/Sugary Drinks

Scientists uncover a missing link between poor diet and higher cancer risk

Published April 15, 2024 | Originally published on MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has unearthed new findings that may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from poor diet. The insights gained from this study […]

Drinking one soda or sweetened beverage per day may increase the risk of liver disease and cancers, according to new study

By Lisa Marie Basile | Fact-checked by Davi Sherman | Published September 20, 2023 Key Takeaways Findings from a new study published in JAMA explored the effects of sugary beverage intake in 98,786 postmenopausal women over an average follow-up of 20.9 years. They found that women who drank one or more servings daily of sweetened beverages—compared with […]

Dietary sugar consumption and health: umbrella review

BMJ 2023; 381 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071609 (Published 05 April 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;381:e071609 Abstract Objective To evaluate the quality of evidence, potential biases, and validity of all available studies on dietary sugar consumption and health outcomes. Design Umbrella review of existing meta-analyses. Data sources PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and hand searching […]

Can Curbing Thirst for Sugary Drinks Reduce Colon Cancer?

— Two servings a day more than doubled risk in women younger than 50, study showed by Diana Swift, Contributing Writer May 6, 2021 A higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in adulthood and adolescence was associated with an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) in women, according to data from the Nurses’ Health […]

Research shows how a sugary diet early in life could mean memory trouble later

University of Southern California Health News | April 5, 2021 The study by a team of researchers at USC Dornsife, UCLA and the University of Georgia, Athens, finds a direct connection between particular bacteria in the gut and impaired brain function. New research shows how drinking sugary beverages early in life may lead to impaired […]

Excess blood sugar promotes clogging of arteries: Study

Cornell University Health News | March 23, 2021 Excess sugar in the blood, the central feature of diabetes, can react with immune proteins to cause myriad changes in the immune system, including inflammatory changes that promote atherosclerosis, according to a new study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Massachusetts Medical School. The […]

Op-Ed: The Bitter Truth of USDA’s Sugar Guidelines

— President Biden needs to “follow the science” and act now by David Perlmutter, MD and Casey Means, MD February 21, 2021 Dear President Joe Biden, During your campaign, you promised to “follow the science.” Well, now’s your chance. The recommendations for added sugar in the 2020-2025 USDA dietary guidelines — released under the Trump administration — […]

What Sugar Does to the Brain

Alistair Gardiner | February 12, 2021 Sugar is a slippery slope. On the one hand, the brain and body need it for fuel; on the other, it can act like a drug—the more we eat, the more we seem to crave. Sugar has been considered a dietary enemy for a long time—and with good reason. […]

Diet and Acne

February 02, 2021 International Journal of Dermatology TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors performed a systematic review using the PubMed database that included 11 interventional clinical trials and 42 observational studies conducted between January 2009 and April 2020. They found several dietary factors associated with acne promotion, including a high glycemic index and/or glycemic load diet, dairy […]

Association of chronic spinal pain with diet quality

Zick, Suzanna Mariaa,*; Murphy, Susan Lynnb; Colacino, Justinc PAIN Reports: September/October 2020 – Volume 5 – Issue 5 – p e837 doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000837 Introduction: Chronic spinal pain is disabling and has high personal and societal costs. Risk factors include behavioral factors; however, little is known about the role of diet quality and its association with spinal pain. Higher diet quality and consumption […]

Drinking sugary drinks daily may be linked to higher risk of CVD in women

ScienceDaily Top Health|May 15, 2020 Drinking one or more sugary beverages a day was associated with a nearly 20% greater likelihood of women having a cardiovascular disease compared to women who rarely or never drank sugary beverages, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal […]

Is There Really Fruit Juice in That ‘Juice’ Drink?

— Labels often exaggerate by Jeff Minerd, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today April 21, 2020 Labels on many children’s drink products supposedly containing fruit juice continue to be misleading, despite FDA attempts to regulate them, researchers reported. An analysis of top-selling products marketed to kids found that nearly all (97%) showed images of fruit on the […]

Association between soft drinks consumption and asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open — Al-Zalabani AH, Elahi IN, Katib A, et al. | October 28, 2019 Researchers performed a meta-analysis and systematic review investigating the correlation between consumption of soft drinks and asthma prevalence among adults and children. Searching Medline, Scopus, ISI Web of Science and the Cochrane Library up to December 2018, they included 19 […]

Soft Drink Consumption Linked to an Increased Risk of Death

By Robert Dillard -September 4, 2019 Consumption of total, sugar-sweetened, and artificially sweetened soft drinks is linked to all-cause mortality, according to the findings of a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In this population-based cohort study, researchers assessed 451,743 (mean age, 51, 71% women) participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and […]

Study Suggests Possible Link Between Sugary Drinks and Cancer

MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events | July 11, 2019 A study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between higher consumption of sugary drinks and and an increased risk of cancer. While cautious interpretation is needed, the findings add to a growing body of evidence indicating that limiting sugary drink consumption, together with taxation and […]

New study reveals: Is fruit juice as bad as soda?

Naveed Saleh, MD, MS, for MDLinx | May 23, 2019 You probably know that most sugary drinks—including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) like soda, soft drinks, and fruit-flavored drinks—are bad for you. But what about 100% fruit juice, another type of sugary drink? Although there have been some declines in sugar consumption in recent years, people still […]

Long-term consumption of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages and risk of mortality in US adults

Circulation — Malik VS, et al. | May 03, 2019 Among 37,716 men from the Health Professional’s Follow-up Study (HPFS; 1986-2014) and 80,647 women from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS; 1980-2014), researchers assessed the risk of total and cause-specific mortality in relation to consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs). Overall, intake […]

Sugary Beverages Associated With More Severe Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

Rachel Lutz Publish Date: Friday, March 22, 2019 A new report found that soda and other beverages sweetened with sugar can make symptoms more severe in multiple sclerosis patients. Investigators from St. Josef Hospital Bochum in Germany surveyed multiple sclerosis patients in order to assess the effect of diet on mechanisms implicated in multiple sclerosis […]

Sugar alternatives to help fight diabetes

Rosemary Black, for MDLinx | February 27, 2019 Got a sweet tooth? Then dressing up your favorite dishes with a spoonful of sugar is a guilty pleasure you probably indulge in on occasion. So, those who like their sweet treats may be interested to know that products like date sugar and coconut sugar are joining […]

Do Milk and Sugar Cause Acne?

IT’S CONFIRMED. DAIRY PRODUCTS AND SUGAR CAUSE ACNE. As our sugar and dairy consumption has increased over the last 100 years so has the number of people with acne. We now have over 17 million acne sufferers, costing our health care system $1 billion a year. Eighty to ninety percent of teenagers suffer acne to […]