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Posted Yesterday 2:30 AM (GMT 0)
Soft drink a day raises men's risk for aggressive prostate cancer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2239110/Just-soft-drink-day-raises-mens-risk-aggressive-prostate-cancer-40-cent.html
Posted Yesterday 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
Argh. Please include some comment about what is useful in the link, why you like it, don't like it??

Seems to be the day for random links.

Posted Yesterday 8:18 AM (GMT 0)
Article is about a Swedish study linking fizzy drinks to PCa, it is not just UK news reporting it.

I note the following at the end of the article:

British experts also urged caution over the findings. Dr Iain Frame, director of research at Prostate Cancer UK, said: ‘We cannot be certain whether any particular dietary pattern has a significant impact on a man’s risk of getting prostate cancer but it is highly unlikely that any single food source will lead to an increased chance of developing the disease.

I also agree with one of the comments that the story is misleading and poorly written, as the research would seem to suggest it is the sugar/carbohydrates not the fizz that might be the problem and I thought it was fairly well known that sugar may feed cancers.

The orginal article talks about dietary intake of carbohyrates, here's a link, though I can't open the link on my computer for some reason:
ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2012/11/06/ajcn.112.039438
Posted Yesterday 8:23 AM (GMT 0)
Aha
Have managed to open link to AJCN and this was what it said:

Objective: Our objective was to examine the associations between dietary intakes of carbohydrates, fiber, and their food sources and risk of prostate cancer, overall and by case severity, in the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort.

Design: The analysis included 8128 men aged 45–73 y without a history of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes and who were classified as adequate energy reporters. After a median follow-up time of 15 y, prostate cancer was diagnosed in 817 men. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to model associations between energy-adjusted nutrient and food intakes with risk of incident prostate cancer, with competing risk of death from non–prostate cancer causes taken into account.

Results: After adjustment for age and other known or potential risk factors, we observed no associations between total carbohydrates or dietary fiber and prostate cancer. We observed positive associations between the intake of low-fiber cereals with overall and low-risk prostate cancer and between intakes of cake and biscuits and rice and pasta with low-risk prostate cancer (all P-trend < 0.05). A high intake compared with zero consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with increased risk of symptomatic prostate cancer (HR: 1.38; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.84).

Conclusions: Results from this large study with high-validity dietary data suggest that a high intake of refined carbohydrates may be associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. However we observed no significant associations with high-risk prostate cancer, and not all foods that are typically high in refined carbohydrates were associated with prostate cancer.

So it still seems to me, as I always maintain, that if you have a balanced diet you will be okay.

Alf

Post Edited (English Alf) : 11/29/2012 2:14:55 AM (GMT-7)

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