A new study of women and diet suggests that sugar-sweetened drinks may play a role. Compared with people born around 1950, those born around 1990 have twice the risk for colon cancer and four times the risk for rectal cancer. While sales of sugar-sweetened drinks have been decreasing in recent years, the percentage of calories consumed in sugary drinks rose dramatically between 1977 and 2001. By 2014 those figures had dropped, but 7 percent of calories consumed by Americans overall were still from sugary drinks. They also looked at a subset of 41,272 nurses who reported their intake of sugary drinks at ages 13 to 18.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 09:00 UTC