A friend sent this link to me about a 14 year study demon­strat­ing  a link to pan­cre­atic can­cer and soft drinks. While it would be easy for me to jump on the band­wagon as an ex-soft drink junkie (we are the worst), and it would be easy for me to say “I told you so!” I can­not in good con­scious do that here.

D0 soft drinks cause pan­cre­atic cancer?

While the data seems pretty con­vinc­ing, the study also sites four other stud­ies done pre­vi­ously that did not show a link. The per­cent­ages also seem oddly high to me, enough that it makes me ques­tion the data and its accuracy.

With that said, I could go on and on about soft drinks.

I could go on about how there is a very direct and clear par­al­lel trend line between the intro­duc­tion of high fruc­tose corn syrup into soft drinks in the late 70’s and the increased rate of obe­sity that fol­lows it, almost per­fectly, from then until now.

I could go on about how most com­mer­cially grown corn used to make corn syrup is genet­i­cally mod­i­fied to grow its own lar­vi­cide to pre­vent crop damage.

I could go on about how Mon­santo is behind that lit­tle mar­vel of mod­ern science.

I could also add that it is wor­thy of a major class action law­suit that com­pa­nies are allowed to put the label “All Nat­ural” on prod­ucts, like soda, that con­tain corn syrup. The process required to make it and the result­ing tox­ins are any­thing but natural.

Did I men­tion that corn syrup has replaced sugar in most prod­ucts because the gov­ern­ment sub­si­dizes it. They give the farm­ers who grow it money so that it is cheaper to sell than it costs to grow?

Lastly I could go on about how corn used for corn syrup has replaced most graz­ing pas­tures for cat­tle in the US which is why most beef  must be raised in feed lots rather than in the great wide open with fresh air. (The soft drink indus­try is one of the biggest rea­sons for this.)

But I wont.

Yes I would love to run to all my soft drink addicted friends and show them this study just like an ex-smoker gets on their soap­box about the dan­gers of smok­ing, but I cant. Really, I would love to. I would really, really love to! This study just doesn’t present a strong case I am afraid.

Even if soda doesn’t cause can­cer, would you still want to drink it if you knew what you know now? If you cant kick the soda, at least find an organic, health­ier alter­na­tive for it rather than the ones found in most gro­cery stores. You are bet­ter than that and deserve bet­ter too.

Nuff said.…