So my chance of developing gastric cancer doubles to 1.8% chance over my lifetime if I drink sugar-beverages every day… (This math wasn’t sponsored by a cancer testing company.)
After you actually get the the study, there wasn’t any mention of other associated lifestyle behaviors that may contribute to the risk of gastric cancers. What sticks out to me is that people drinking one or more sugar-packed beverages per day likely have additional diet or lifestyle concerns.
It’s not that I think the number crunching for the study was wrong or that the sample sizes were too small, it’s just that it was extremely focused on making a correlation for the sake of making a correlation.
After accounting for other potential risk factors,
I doubt Mass General Brigham is so incompetent that they don’t know how to do science. They do talk about the study limitations, especially around H. Pylori status, but also state that they collected detailed health and lifestyle history to control for confounding factors.
so what in the sugar causes it, contamination. nitrates in mean is a carcinogen. so known causes for stomach cancer was gerd/ acid reflux and H pylori infection,alcohol and stomach cancer is somewhat uncommon.
