SOFTDRINKS CANCER THREAT DISMISSED – USA RESEARCH
January 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
SOFT drinks - accused in 2004 of being a serious cause of cancer - have been given a clean bill of health by American researchers. A study performed at the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut, US, suggests that the opposite may be true and that in fact, regular consumers of soft drinks are less likely to develop cancer of the esophagus than those sticking to - say - water, orange juice and beer.
The new research, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, involved 1,095 patients suffering from esophageal cancer and a control ...
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