It is SUGAR! Cancer cells thrive on sugar and avoiding simple sugars helps to slow growth in tumors. There is no magic or miracles; if you eat a healthy diet avoiding processed foods you can fight cancer better. Surprise!
And the standard assessment for metastasizes is a glucose (sugar) tag that attaches to cancer cells and tracks movement. So there's that.
Agree!! Sugar is no bueno.
And reduce fat/increase muscle tone. Cancer loves fats and sugars.
Your conclusion is correct but I would like to add some detail to augment your explanation.
Basically, every cell in your body needs some form of “SUGAR!” to survive as do cancer cells. “Blood sugar” or glucose is the primary source of energy for most of the cells in your body. When your blood sugar level drops below a certain level, your brain cells stop functioning, you lose consciousness, you stop breathing and you die. Sugars are not inherently bad, just as fats, proteins, oxygen, and water are not inherently bad. These are all ingredients that are necessary for us to live.
The problems caused by eating too many sweet foods are largely related to digestive and metabolic processes, and the way that your body reacts to eating sweet foods. And of course people's bodies often react far differently to various foods depending on a wide variety of factors. But in the United States especially people tend to eat vastly more sugar in their foods than what our bodies need.
Our consumption of sweet foods has “skyrocketed” in recent decades. “In 1822 Americans consumed an average of 45 grams of sugar every five days, or the amount of sugar in one can of coke.” “In 2012, Americans consumed an average of 756 grams of sugar every five days, that’s 130 pounds of sugar a year.” This is a huge change in diet and our bodies just do not handle this very well in many cases.
https://firstdescents.org/fd-healthy-sugar-how-it-affects-our-bodies/
Unfortunately, the explanations given in the link above are somewhat oversimplified and not completely accurate, but like your explanation they seem to come to the correct conclusion.
Missing in nearly all explanations of why sugary processed foods are not very healthy is this... processed foods simply do not contain a wide enough variety of nutrients to support a healthy gut flora. More and more studies have suggested in recent years that there is a very high correlation between a healthy gut flora and a strong and properly functioning immune system.
The proportion of sugar in candy and processed foods especially... is causing essential healthy bacteria in our intestines to die out and be replaced by bacteria that are less healthy and less diverse. This is most likely the primary reason eating less processed and less sugary foods increases your chances for good health.
Actually, you’re wrong.
All carbohydrates are turned into glucose by the liver. It doesn’t matter if you eat pure white cane sugar, a bag of candy corn, a loaf of wonder bread, a pot of sticky white rice, some mac and cheese... It’s turned into glucose.
I would add that processed foods tend to be high in calories and low in nutrients which contributes to obesity. Being overweight is very unhealthy.
It is indeed sugar. Another reason low carb diets are best for you! Meat, chees, eggs, veggies other than corn or carrots. Dark greens mostly.
Yep, and currently they're doing phase 3 trials adding metformin to standard of care chemo. Metformin moderates glucose levels and it is already approved for use with diabetics.
My mother has metastasized uterine cancer. Chemo slowed it down and shrunk the tumors but the cancer cells adjusted and it lost its effectiveness. She was also put on the metformin trial but we never did find out if she got the real thing or placebo.
During the last few months while determining from Foundation One if there was any other treatments available for her I asked the doctor to keep Her on the real deal Metformin if nothing else while we were waiting to see if there was other any other effective drugs available.
It is SUGAR!
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Exactly...