Jeff, notice it’s for the HIGHEST concentration of sugar - and it’s derived from sodas. High fructose corn sugar is NOT plain old sugar and soda and diet sodas are implicated in a variety of disease states.
Anything - carbs, sugars, fats, salt and protein - consumed in excess can cause or aggravate disease; so can vitamins, supplements (remember the selenium and Vit E that was supposed to prevent prostate cancer? It increased it!), and certain chemicals and preservatives.
My basic point is that, IN MODERATION,( a term which no human today seems to be able to understand), all the things I mentioned above will not cause or exacerbate cancer.
Asbestos, BPA, tri-chlor and other known carcinogens ‘may’ under the right genetic circumstances.
My father died from mesothelioma at 72 (asbestos in shipyard), but my mother, who smoked 3 packs of Marlboro every day from when she was a teen, died from Covid at age 98! Where is her lung cancer, heart disease, COPD and all the other crap caused by cigarettes?? Her doctor said she did not have the genetic ‘initiator’ in her body that causes smoke tar to become carcinogenic.
A recent NYT article did a 20 page story on different cancers and came to the same conclusion: cancer needs the perfect conditions of carcinogen, initiator, immune response and exposure. It’s like when an airline crashes - there’s no ONE causative factor, but the perfect storm of several that are responsible.
Given that mix of ingredients, It’s a wonder ANY of us get it! But sadly we do and there’s simply no way (right now) to do anything about it.
So for me, I say have that cookie or two or that small slice of your favorite pie….hell, put ice cream on top…..just don’t have it EVERY day…