Scientists combed through data on over 100,000 people for the study.
To understand the potential risks posed by drinking sugary and artificially sweetened drinks, French researchers looked at data on 101,257 adults who were taking part in the ongoing-Santé cohort study. The participants were healthy, and had an average age of 42 when they were recruited.status, age, sex, education level, weight, whether they smoked, how much they exercised, their health and what they ate.
A 100mL per day increase in the amount of sugary drinks an individual consumed was linked with a 22 percent increased risk of breast cancer from the baseline, and an 18 percent increased risk of cancer overall.The authors concluded that the results suggest"sugary drinks, which are widely consumed in Western countries, might represent a modifiable risk factor for cancer prevention." Policies like sugar taxes and marketing restrictions on the product might cut rates of cancer.
Mathilde Touvier, co-author of the paper and research director at INSERM and principal investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort, toldthe link between fruit juices could be explained by the fact they generally contain high levels of simple sugar comparable to regular soda, and their glycemic indexes are higher than that of whole fruits.
However, as the study was observational, the findings don't prove sugary drinks cause cancer and confounding factors could be at play, although these were accounted for in the analysis, she said.
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