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SOdas Keep Child Obesity Soaring - Online - International News Network- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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A new review of data and expert opinion suggests soft drink consumption greatly increases the risk of childhood obesity, according to researchers reporting in the May issue of the Journal of Pediatrics. While no single factor can be pinpointed as the sole cause of childhood obesity, the review revealed a correlation between soft drink consumption and the risk of childhood obesity. But all the benefit appeared to be among men under 65, where the watchful waiting group had more than double the death rate of the surgery group. Among all men in the study, after 10 years, those getting surgery had a 44 percent lower rate of death from prostate cancer, a 26 percent lower rate of death from all causes, and sharply lower rates of cancer spread. Brooks said longer-term research is needed to determine how the results apply in this country, where prostate cancer usually is diagnosed at an earlier stage by the PSA blood test; the Scandinavian men mostly were diagnosed when the tumor was large enough to be felt on a rectal exam. Read Childhood Obesity

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