email article A higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in adulthood and adolescence was associated with an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) in women, according to data from the Nurses' Health Study II. The prospective study followed 95,464 registered nurses from 1991 to 2015. Those consuming at least two SSB servings a day in adulthood had more than double the early-onset CRC risk of those consuming less than one serving a week (relative risk [RR] 2.18, 95% CI 1.10-4.35, P trend=0.02), reported Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, of Washington University in St. Louis, and co-researchers. Furthermore, the risk rose by 16% with each additional serving per day. Strategies to reduce intake among adolescents and young adults could potentially alleviate the growing burden of the disease, the authors wrote in