Reminder

I don’t know how new this information is, because I read this back when my dad was sick. Two of the highest risk factors are soda and cured lunch meat. My dad drank diet soda and ate lunch meat almost every day of his life:

MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) — 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.

But the overall number of people developing the malignancy remains low, with the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimating 42,470 new cases last year.

“Soft drinks are linked with a higher risk of pancreatic cancer,” said Noel Mueller, lead author of a study appearing in the February issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. “We can’t speculate too much on the mechanism because this is an observational study, but the increased risk may be working through effects of the hormone insulin.”

This study refers specifically to sugared soft drinks, but there’s also evidence that diet drinks affect insulin, too.