WASHINGTON: Drinking artificially sweetened beverages is associated with a significantly lower risk of recurrence of colon cancer and death from cancer, according to a study.
"Artificially sweetened beverages have a damned reputation in the public because of alleged health risks that have never really been documented," said Charles S Fuchs of Yale University to the states -United.
"Our study clearly shows that they help prevent recurrence of cancer and death in patients who have been treated for advanced colon cancer, and that's an exciting discovery," he said. Fuchs, lead author of the study published in the journal PLOS ONE.
The researchers found that in the analysis of 1,018 patients, participants who drank one or more 12 ounce portions of artificially sweetened beverages per day had a 46% lower risk of recurrence or death than of those who did not consume it. drink these drinks.
These "soft drinks" were defined as colas containing caffeine, colas without caffeine and other soft drinks (such as ginger ale).
A second analysis revealed that about half of this benefit was attributable to the substitution of an artificially sweetened beverage for a beverage sweetened with sugar.