By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It may not be the best name for marketing a new soda brand. “Mei Maves” literally means, “Waters of Death.”
And the question is: Would you buy this brand?
Answer?
You already are.
The results of a study are just in. The study followed 95,464 registered nurses from 1991-2015. Essentially, those who drank at least 2 servings a day of sugar sweetened sodas – doubled their risk of early onset colorectal cancer of those drinking less than one serving a week. The study was done by Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, of Washington University in St. Louis, and co-researchers.
What about three servings a day? Each extra serving added 16%. In the ages 13 to 18, it is even worse. Each serving-per-day increment had a 32% higher risk of early-onset Colorectal cancer.
FACTS
Five percent of men get colorectal cancer. Four percent of women get colon cancer. It is the second leading cause of death in the United States.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 140,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, and more than 50,000 people die from it.
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THE MITZVOS
Are there Mitzvos involved in avoiding sugary drinks?
This author believes that there are three:
- the Mitzvah of “veNishmartem me’od b’nafshosaichem (Dvarim 4:9) – the Mitzvah of protecting our health and well-being.
- The verse later on (Dvarim 4:15), “Rak hishamer lecha” is understood by most Poskim to actually comprise an actual second Mitzvah (See Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita Shaar HaTeshuvos #25) – to take special care.
- There is a third Mitzvah, “V’Chai Bahem – And you shall live by them” (VaYikra 18:5).
Since the percentage of Jews in the United States is about 2.1 percent, and more than 50,000 die from this type of cancer each year – following these three Mitzvos can save 500 lives a year. The conclusion? Stop regularly drinking soda.
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9 Responses
People above fifty should get a colonoscooy once a year.
Can I ask where R Hoffman received his medical training?
Should be above once in five years.
This is garbage. Like much of the author’s output. Let’s go right to the obvious giveaway: “The study followed 95,464 registered nurses from 1991-2015”. Right away we know to PAY NO ATTENTION to this so-called “study”, because the sample is not representative of the population. Just like the infamous Framingham study, on the basis of which the whole world has been brainwashed into believing a load of nonsense about dietary cholesterol. And I’d bet that, like the Framingham study, not only is the sample unrepresentative, but it relies on retrospective self-reporting, which makes it completely useless. No conclusions can be drawn from such a “study”. It exists only to create publications for the authors.
PS: This isn’t even its own study, it’s a paper based on analysis of results reported by the Nurses Health Study, which suffers many of the same defects as the Framingham study.
There is no question that it contributes to diabeties called empty calories.
Milhouse – Why so nasty? There is nothing wrong with presenting a different point of view, but “Divrei chachomim b’nachas nishmaim”
The conclusion is ridiculous. There’s nothing that says, or even hints, that 50% of all deaths from colon cancer are caused by soda. [RH Responds: Corrected. Thank you.]
500 = (50000 x .02) / 2