[shirley7]

I imagine most people drink fizz.There have been so many stories over the last few years linking fizzy drinks to different types of cancer, diabetes and heart disease is the latest. There is obviously no solid proof because there has been no official warning. I drink fizz every day (no more than 2 cans). How much fizz do you drink? Does anyone take these stories seriously?

[gozatron]

Pretty much anything these days has been tenuously linked to giving you cancer.

[facetious]

(Original post by gozatron)
Pretty much anything these days has been tenuously linked to giving you cancer.

Was going to reply with exactly this.
So no, I don't take any of this seriously. Everything in moderation.

[chickenonsteroids]

Going on TSR is linked with giving you cancer too.

[meenu89]

Think I must drink about 1 can in total over a week and I don't believe these stupid stories.

[ktlaurenroe]

Probably depends whether they're diet or not. I imagine the ones with tons of sugar in will link to heart disease/diabetes etc, but not entirely sure about the chemically ones.

[DirtyRotten]

I drink about 4-5 cans of Pepsi Max a day.

I'll report back in about 40 years if I've died of cancer.

[jennifex]

(Original post by shirley7)
I imagine most people drink fizz.There have been so many stories over the last few years linking fizzy drinks to different types of cancer, diabetes and heart disease is the latest. There is obviously no solid proof because there has been no official warning. I drink fizz every day (no more than 2 cans). How much fizz do you drink? Does anyone take these stories seriously?

It doesn't take a genius to conclude that 2 cans of sugary fizzy drink a day probably isn't great for you (probably the same for diet ones with sweeteners too), but that doesn't mean it's going to give you cancer. I don't see how they could prove that it does. If you're worried about it just use common sense, everything in moderation; as long as you're generally healthy/ exercise I wouldn't have thought a coke here or there is gonna hurt!

(If you're talking about sugary drinks, I think it has been proven that having too much sugar in your diet can be linked with heart disease and diabetes, though)

[arnoob]

Used to drink fuzzy drinks once a week or so but since I've started college it has become a daily thing

[Alpharius]

Did you get this from the Daily Mail?

[vickie89]

i dont buy it every week, but probably a 2litre bottle of either pepsi max or sprite/7up over the course of the week when i buy it. and i dont listen to those stories as everything will kill you accoridng to these reports so i usually just ignore it all.

[isawsparks89]

(Original post by gozatron)
Pretty much anything these days has been tenuously linked to giving you cancer.

Don't leave the house to risk your chance of being run over??

Pull the other one.
(I'm with you on this one.)