Women who consume two or more sugary or sweetened drinks daily have more than double the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer compared to those consuming less than one per week.
"Women who consume two or more dietary drinks daily have over double the risk of early onset colorectal cancer compared to those who drink less than one a week." (said at 1:47:15)
The speaker referred to 'dietary drinks' (diet or artificially sweetened beverages), which contradicts the published findings. In a prospective cohort study of 95,464 women in the Nurses' Health Study II (Hur et al., 2021), consumption of two or more servings per day of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)—not diet or artificially sweetened drinks—was associated with a more than doubled risk of early-onset colorectal cancer compared to less than one serving per week (RR 2.18; 95% CI 1.10 to 4.35). In contrast, replacing daily servings of sugar-sweetened beverages with artificially sweetened beverages was associated with a 17% to 36% lower risk of early-onset colorectal cancer.
- contradicts: Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset color… (Gut 2021)
"Compared with individuals who consumed <1 serving/week of SSBs in adulthood, women who consumed ≥2 servings/day had a more than doubled risk of EO-CRC (RR 2.18; 95% CI 1.10 to 4.35; p trend =0.02), with a 16% higher risk (RR 1.16; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.36) per serving/day increase... Replacing each serving/day of adulthood SSB intake with that of artificially sweetened beverages, coffee, reduced fat milk or total milk was associated with a 17%-36% lower risk of EO-CRC." (abstract, results, passage verified)
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