Obsession many people to sugar has been linked to many chronic diseases in recent years, including some types of cancer.
Is it true that a person's sugar increases the risk of cancer? Here is a summary of some of the latest research and explanations of Carrie Daniel MacDougall, PhD, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Scientists have long examined the relationship between sugar with various types of cancer. Some of them affect organs that are directly involved in the metabolism of sugars (such as the liver and pancreas), while the rest are not.
A Swedish study published recently found that people who drank two or more servings of soda and sugary drinks every day, have a higher risk of developing cancer of gallbladder and biliary tract, compared with those who do not or rarely drink soda and sweet drinks.
There is also a study published in March, which was written by Daniel MacDougall, stating that people who are accustomed to eating food glycemic indexed high or simple carbohydrates like white bread, potatoes, and white rice, are more likely to get lung cancer than those who eat a little high glycemic indexed foods.
