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Five everyday habits that could be harming your pancreas - C C - Nov 21, 2025
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Five everyday habits that could be harming your pancreas
https://theconversation.com/five-everyday-habits-that-could-be-harming-your-pancreas-266647
INTRO: The pancreas is essential for staying alive and healthy. This small organ sits behind the stomach and has two main jobs. It produces digestive enzymes that break down food and hormones such as insulin and glucagon that control blood sugar.
Everyday habits such as heavy drinking and unhealthy eating can gradually damage the pancreas. Once injured, the consequences can be serious and include inflammation, diabetes and, in some cases, cancer.
Several common lifestyle factors can put the pancreas under strain... (MORE - details)
COVERED:
1. Alcohol
2. Smoking
3. Diet
4. Obesity
5. Physical inactivity
RE: Five everyday habits that could be harming your pancreas - confused2 - Nov 26, 2025
Puts me in mind of Charles Atlas gone horribly wrong..
"You too can have a body like mine."
RE: Five everyday habits that could be harming your pancreas - Zinjanthropos - Nov 26, 2025
Have those 5 covered but still got cancer. Charles Atlas died in '72 age 80 and his body in its current state is what I'm trying to avoid for now.