By Shepard AmbellasIntellihub.com
March 21, 2103
It is alarming to know that most Americans drink sugary beverages. In fact a massive propaganda (advertisement) campaign started back before my time. Soda pops were only 5 cents according to my Dad.
However, at that time sodas and other drinks were likely made with real sugars as opposed to high fructose corn syrup which is used in most drinks today as a form of sweetener (a cancer inhibitor). In fact researchers from University of California-Los Angeles found just that. An excerpt from a Mike Adams article reads;
Their findings, which were published in the journal Cancer Research,
could help explain earlier studies that have linked ingestion of
fructose with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the
disease.
“These findings show that cancer cells
can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation,” Dr. Anthony
Heaney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote in 2010.
“They have major significance for cancer
patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that
efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated
actions may disrupt cancer growth,” he said.
Americans, much more than people in most
other industrialized nations, consume an incredible amount of fructose,
mainly high fructose corn syrup, which is a mix of fructose and glucose
used largely in sodas, bread and a host of other processed foods.
A recent study by the American Heart Association highlights the following:- Sugar-sweetened beverages may be linked to about 180,000 deaths in the world each year.
- Countries in the Caribbean/Latin America had among the highest death rates from diabetes due to consumption of sugary beverages.
- About 25,000 deaths in the United States each year may be associated with sugar-sweetened drinks.
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