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Artificial Sweeteners & Liver Cancer - Is There a Link? 6% Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma per 330ml of Artificially Sweetened Soft Drink in Human Study

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Are we "pouring liver cancer", when we consume soft drinks regularly? Recent data from the EPIC study appears to suggest just that - specifically if the soft drinks are artificially sweetened. I certainly don't belong to the anti-sweetener faction on the Internet, but the results scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer , the University Paris Sud , the Institut Gustave Roussy and the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) in France, the Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, the Hellenic Health Foundation and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece, the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Aarhus University and the Danish Cancer Society Research Center in Denmark and the Cancer Council Victoria and the University of Melbourne in Australia in the latest issue of the European Journal of Nutrition are serious enough to not to discard them as another unwarranted horror-story of the anti-sweetener l...
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What's Worse for Your Body Composition & Liver Health? 10g of Sugar from Coke or the Same 10g From Cookies? Plus: Liquid Sucrose is Harder on the Liver Than Fructose

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Hard do believe, but the 10g from coke may actually do more harm than the same amount from cookies. If you want to scare me away from a discussion about the "fat problems" the US and large parts of Europe are struggling with, you just have to repeat Taubs'ian statements such as "if we had not eaten carbohydrates all the mess wouldn't have happened." It's certainly true that the exorbitant and mislead carbohydrate intake and the psyochological consequences ("Fat is bad, isn't it?") of the "low fat" decades from the 1970-1990s is part of the problem, but when we look closer, it's not as simple as to say "we don't eat enough fat". As Yvonne Ritze and her colleagues from the University of Hohenheim , the Technische Universität München , and the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center in Rorschach (Switzerland) write in their latest paper in PLoS One , it's rather the unhealthy conglomerate of "changes in ...
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