July 20, 2018

Diet soda and colon cancer: What you need to know

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roxanne nelson

July 23, 2018 at 1:46 pm

I wrote up this story for Medscape, and I knew a lot of the media would go wild over it. Dr. Fuchs clearly said that his theory is the “substitution effect,” that substituting sugar laden sodas for the diet ones helped curb recurrence and death. Not the diet soda itself. He also emphasized that maintaining a healthy weight, exercise and eating a low glycemic diet were extremely important, and not just drinking diet soda. But for patients who do drink soda, he felt it was reasonable for doctors to suggest switching to low/no cal drinks, as it was a better option, as people find it hard to give up the craving for sugar. So it is a shame that most news outlets didn’t take the time to speak with the authors, or actually read the full study–as much of this information is in their paper. The Yale press release spun it to make it sound like soda was a new anti-cancer agent.

Emmanuel Hipolito

July 29, 2018 at 4:15 am

Very consistent with my own thoughts no real evidence based literature I take diet pop.

Matt Hudkins

July 30, 2018 at 3:05 pm

At the same time, I wouldn’t agree in wholly discounting the role sweeteners, such as monk fruit and stevia, play in decreasing cancer recurrence and metastasis.

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