New study says soda causes cancer uh WTF?

[Marvolo]

I was just watching "Up to the Minute" on CBS and they had a story on a study done by the FDA and they are saying that dark colored soft drinks cause cancer. Um, I'm sorry, but does everything cause cancer now a days? This paranoia is becoming seriously aggravating and is becoming ridiculous. In a world where everything causes cancer nothing causes cancer. Its the same way if everyone is special then no one is special. If everything causes cancer then cancer is not a disease, it is just a way of life. They came to this conclusion by this evidence and I quote: "In the lab, the chemicals in caramel coloring in these sodas caused cancer in some animals so we have to assume it causes it in humans." Assuming makes an ass out of you and me. Chocolate in large enough quantities will kill a dog, but am I too assume it is deadly to all humans? No, that would be ignorant. So why are these "scientists" feeding the fire of paranoia. Now the FDA is calling for these drinks to be taken off the market if they refuse to remove the coloring, and California wants a warning on dark sodas that they may cause cancer! Come on , people, use common sense. People today are terrified of cancer and what might cause it, we don't need to give them another thing to fear.

Here is a link to the story:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cspi-caramel-coloring-cola-cancer-soft-drink-industry/story?id=12932008

 

[Timstuff]

Scientists would be a lot more useful if they could successfully identify something that has zero possibility of causing cancer. It would probably be a very short list.

 

[SuperFerret]

Ironically, you know what doesn't cause cancer?

Cancer.

 

[Marvolo]

Ironically, you know what doesn't cause cancer?

Cancer.

And some cancers will even fight other cancers. Maybe there is a cure in there somewhere. Creat a super cancer that fights off every cancer, but take away its ability to mutate human cells. Of course, if it got out too early or wasnt designed properly it could end up being the end of mankind. Ironic that the one thing that could save us is actually killing us.

 

[WildcatNC]

Eh. Who knows. Its possible.

With all the s**t we put in our foods and drinks that are manufactured in chemical plants and test tubes its hard to tell what causes what.

Its a pretty good bet that soda's account for a large majority of type II

 

[SuperFerret]

Chemicals aren't a bad thing though. Don't make this into a "ARGH! Evil Corporations poison our food! RRARRGH!" type of thing when it isn't.

 

[KevanG]

ARGH! Evil Corporations poison our food! RRARRGH!

WE MUST DESTORY DEM ALL!

Alabama too!

 

[WildcatNC]

Chemicals aren't a bad thing though. Don't make this into a "ARGH! Evil Corporations poison our food! RRARRGH!" type of thing when it isn't.

Your the only one going "RRARRGH"!!!


"Eh. Who knows." Is the opposite of "ARGH!"


Don't make this into a melodrama type thing when it isn't


But honestly if "harmful chemicals in our food" isn't relevant in a thread about a study that says soda causes cancer then WTF is? Its directly on topic. We also know that certain tumors are fueled by sucrose. Makes them grow like crazy.

Chemicals aren't good or bad. Its how they are used and what they are put in. Many that are in our food do not need to be there. We have NO IDEA of the long term affects of many of them on the human body.

 

[SuperFerret]

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Breaking news: soda is bad for you.

Next, astronauts land on the moon. More at 10!

 

[redmarvel]

We don't give our little boy vitamins anymore because the coloured dyes in the vitamins may cause cancer.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Everything gives you cancer!!!

 

[PemLam]

Sign me up for chemo treatments now then because there's no way I'm giving 'em up.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

bloody hell by now breathing causes cancer.

 

[Prison Mike]

we already know soda is bad for you anyway...

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

this is exactly why I stopped drinking soda right after they took Crystal Pepsi off the market.

 

[chaseter]

Some of you people never read

"Is it a carcinogen? The tests have shown in mice it can increase the risk of cancer. On the other hand, there is also evidence in male rats, it prevented several kinds of cancer," said Guengerich. "Basically my advice would be just to relax ... I did some simple math. ... If you look at the study in terms of what the mice got, in terms of causing any effect, a human being would have to drink more than 1,000 sodas a day."

 

[The Squirrel]

If the Government screws with my Dr. Pepper there will be trouble!

 

[Angry Monkey]

Scientists would be a lot more useful if they could successfully identify something that has zero possibility of causing cancer. It would probably be a very short list.

this

 

[conan69]

Its no suprise soda is bad for you.

When it comes to cancer, people should be more worried about the trance amount of chemicals in food (some so small theyre not required by law to be listed) all clashing together in your body.

My GFs sister in laws cousin (got that?) works for some major food companies and has talked to me about it, and says this is fact is a real cause in the huge rise in cancer the past 20 years.

He only eats organic, which should really tell you something. He actually bagged lunch to the wedding I met him at!

 

[SpideyVille]

I heard the internet gives you cancer.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

I heard that sex can give you cancer.

 

[Prison Mike]

Internet sex can give you double cancer.

 

[Marx]

I think everything has a tendency to cause cancer nowadays...

 

[chaseter]

He actually bagged lunch to the wedding I met him at!

That sounds more crazy than sane. One meal going to give him cancer? A wedding no less.

All of these preservatives are bad for you in high amounts that is true. But, the same can be said for the chemicals that clothing is treated with, chemicals in cleaning supplies, chemicals in tooth paste, chemicals in the tap water you drink, chemicals in the beauty products you use, the list goes on and on. There can be a laundry list of reasons why there is a rise in cancer. People don't eat healthy enough and instead eat fast food, people don't exercise enough, cellphones/tv/microwave, etc. etc. There may have even been just as many statistically equivalent cancer cases 50 years ago but since medical science wasn't as advanced as it was today, they didn't know as much. Here are some interesting figures:
http://progressreport.cancer.gov/highlights.asp

- Death rates for the four most common cancers (prostate, breast, lung, and colorectal), as well as for all cancers combined, continue to decline.

- The rate of cancer incidence has declined since the early 2000s.

- Length of cancer survival has increased for all cancers combined. For All Sites, the percent of cases surviving five years from diagnosis in 2001 (most recent year with five-year follow-up) was 68.3%. Improvement in survival must continue in order to meet the Healthy People 2010 objective for five year survival of 70%.

- Adult cigarette smoking prevalence has been slowly declining since 1991, while smoking prevalence among adolescents has declined since the late 1990s. Despite these declines, one in five adults and adolescents is a smoker.

- Substantial decreases in secondhand smoke exposure have been realized since the beginning of the 1990’s for all subgroups and across a variety of measures. This includes biological measures, as well as work place policies, rules about smoking in the home and, more recently through state and local smoke-free indoor air legislation.

- Sun protective behaviors have risen slightly but young adults, especially young men, show much lower levels of this behavior.

- Teen indoor tanning has decreased since 2005. However, recent usage by girls remains high with over 10% of all girls 14-17 years old and 16% of Non-Hispanic White girls of the same age reporting using an indoor tanning device in 2008.

So in the end, I think the person who only eats and uses organic everything is pretty crazy.