English column: Cancer in the soda

It is probably the most known disease of them all, right after having a cold.

Most people have someone they know or are related to that has cancer, and the newspapers have fully exploited that fact. Each and every day, the newspapers write about a new cure being developed. Not to mention the usual hype about this and that product that will fundamentally increase the risk of you being infected. It has been uncovered in a recent study that things everybody eat every now and then, ordinary things like soda, do fundamentally increase the risk of cancer. My opinion? Bullshit.

I don’t doubt that this study has been seriously arranged, but it seems to me like you can’t eat or drink anything without having to worry about cancer, which could lure around the corner at any time. For example, drinking five cups of coffee, each containing a spoon of sugar, could increase the risk of getting cancer in the pancreas (bukspottskörteln) by 70 percent.

But wait, not everything in the local grocery store is lethal to your health. For example, eating ordinary carrots does actually decrease the risk of getting cancer, as shown in a new study. Other vegetables have the same effect – eating vegetables like lettuce (sallad) and spinach (spenat) three times each week decreases the risk of getting cancer in the stomach with 47 percent. Carrots and lettuce – soon in a pharmacy near you.

Publicerad måndagen den 13 november 2006 (kl 09.47)


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