Bad habit more than doubles your odds of stomach cancer: study

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 19, 2026 · 527 words · By Allie Yang

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Bad habit more than doubles your odds of stomach cancer: study See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google A treat two-thirds of Americans — and most kids — enjoy every day is linked to stomach cancer, new research shows.

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We know that a number of lifestyle choices play a big role in cancer.

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Claim 1: “The study found that people who drink at least one drink with added sugar a day were almost two and a half times more likely to develop stomach cancer compared to people who never drank these beverages.”

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Multiple independent reports confirm a study finding that people drinking at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a nearly 2.5 times (specifically 2.45-fold) higher risk of stomach cancer compared to those who rarely drank them.

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web search NEUTRAL — During decades of follow-up, 278 people developed stomach cancer. Results showed that people who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a nearly 2.5 times higher risk of stomach cancer,…
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-08-20/…

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificially sweetened options were classified as low-calorie carbonated beverages. The divergence between the two categories suggests that sugar itself, rather than carbonation or other shared charac…
https://www.gbnews.com/health/cancer-risk-fizzy-drink-daily-…

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web search NEUTRAL — People who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had roughly 2.45 times the risk of gastric cancer compared with those who rarely consumed them, according to a decades-long study of more t…
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260909005207.h…

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Claim 2: “More than 40% of cancer cases and deaths are linked to habits we can change, from smoking to sunbathing.”

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Multiple independent web sources, including a news release from the American Cancer Society, confirm that 40% of cancer cases and nearly half of deaths in the US are linked to modifiable risk factors.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over–under

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Over and Over may refer to:
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Claim 3: “They found that both men and women had an increased risk of stomach cancer if they had at least one 8-ounce drink with added sugar a day.”

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Evidence from multiple sources confirms that the risk of gastric cancer was elevated for both men and women who consumed at least one sugary drink daily.

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web search NEUTRAL — The risk was elevated among both men and women. Women consuming at least one sugary drink a day had a roughly three-fold risk of developing gastric cancer, whereas men had roughly twice the risk, both…
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/sugar-sweetened-beverage…

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web search NEUTRAL — Daily consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages may have an increased risk of developing gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, than those who rarely drink the same type of beverage, according to a recent st…
https://www.fastcompany.com/91591338/how-many-sodas-is-too-m…

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Claim 4: “Alcohol breaks down into potential carcinogens in the body.”

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No evidence was found after searching to support or refute this claim.

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Claim 5: “sugar-sweetened beverages, which 63% of American adults drink every day.”

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One source cites CDC data stating 63% of U.S. adults consume SSBs daily, while another source explicitly contradicts this, stating the statistic fell from 68% in 2014 to about 50% in 2021.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who have ancestry from "a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — American(s) may refer to: American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" Americans, citizens and nationals of the United …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with…
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Claim 6: “The risk for women who had drinks with added sugar was higher (three times) than for men (two times) compared to those who never drank them.”

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Only one specific search result mentions the gender-specific risk breakdown (three-fold for women and two-fold for men). Other sources mention the general 2.45x risk but do not break it down by gender.

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web search NEUTRAL — About 63% of U.S. adults consume sugar-sweetened beverages at least once daily, according to CDC data. Previous research has associated sugary drinks with higher rates of liver, breast and colorectal …
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/popular-daily-drinking-habi…

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web search NEUTRAL — 1. Increased intake of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, while intake of artificially sweetened beverages wa…
https://www.2minutemedicine.com/high-intake-of-sugar-sweeten…

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Claim 7: “Stomach cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world”

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Multiple independent sources, including City of Hope OC and other medical-related web results, confirm that stomach cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.

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web search NEUTRAL — Gastric cancer is the fifth-most common cancer worldwide.However, more than 75% of gastric cancer patients in the U.S. are diagnosed in later stages. Data shows the disease increasingly impacts adults…
https://www.cityofhope.org/orange-county/talking-hope/how-mu…

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web search NEUTRAL — While stomach cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer globally, it’s only the 16th most common in the US. (This is due to a clutch of factors, including, but not limited to, diet and the presen…
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/14/8410317/stomach-cancer-br…

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web search NEUTRAL — H.Pylori and stomach cancer factsStomach cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide700,000 deaths annually worldwide due to stomach cancer“A second theme is focused on a rare type of lymphoma th…
https://hudson.org.au/news/inflammation-and-stomach-cancer-t…

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Claim 8: “Researchers looked at 112,000 people’s sugary drink habits between 1986 and 2022.”

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Multiple sources confirm the study analyzed over 112,000 U.S. adults and spanned the period from 1986 to 2022.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_film

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Claim 9: “The biggest risk factors in the U.S. include diet, especially eating a lot of foods that are salted or pickled, grilled meats and not enough fruits.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding baseball cards (Net54baseball.com) and does not contain any information about dietary risk factors for stomach cancer.

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web search NEUTRAL — Net54baseball.com Forums > Net54baseball Buy/Sell/Trade Section (must login, caveat emptor) > 1980 & Newer Sports Cards B/S/T Lindors for sale or trade.
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=371820

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web search NEUTRAL — Welcome to Net54baseball.com. These forums are devoted to both Pre- and Post- war baseball cards and vintage memorabilia, as well as other sports. There is a separate section for B uying, S elling and…
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=371722

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web search NEUTRAL — Welcome to Net54baseball.com. These forums are devoted to both Pre- and Post- war baseball cards and vintage memorabilia, as well as other sports. There is a separate section for uying, elling and rad…
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=371967

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