[link to fortune.com]


Drinking an excessive amount of soda that contains the sweetener high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is associated with colorectal (or bowel) cancer and obesity. And according to a study published in the journal Science on Friday, corn syrup may make bowel cancer tumors grow more rapidly.

The study authors found that mice genetically engineered to develop tumors grew larger, more substantial tumors when given the equivalent of one can of HFCS-sweetened soda a day.
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it is all sugar products both raw and processed. That is because syrup was surpassing sugar in sales.