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Danish
researchers report a study of the effect of diets rich in
sucrose in rats provided evidence that suggests a possible
direct link between level of sucrose intake and colon cancer
in humans.
Reporting
in the journal Cancer Research, the researchers said they
added sucrose at different dose levels to the diets to a strain
of rats, and observed a corresponding increase -- varying
directly by sucrose level -- in mutations in the colon.
The said
the study was the first demonstration in an animal test that
increased dietary sucrose causes a genotoxic action.
"Both
sucrose intake and colon cancer rates are high in the Western
world, and our present results call for an examination of
a possible direct relationship between the two," the
researchers concluded.
Source:
Colorectal
Cancer Week of August 4, 2002
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