Too much sugar really is bad for you. It rots your teeth, makes you fat, messes with your brain chemistry and kills your pancreas and liver.
It also feeds cancer.
Cancer cells love sugar. They crave sugar. Cancer cells thrive in an anaerobic, oxygen-free environment. They require sugar to ferment and spread.
I avoid refined sugars like the plague. Not because I have cancer but because I hope to avoid it.
If you are already fighting cancer, sugar is likely the worst thing that you could consider putting into your body.
Following is an excerpt from a good article about the dangers of sugar. I recommend reading it in its entirety.
The Scary Truth About Sugar
By Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND
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2. What is the connection to cancer?
Sugar may be one of our favorite vices but the dark side to sugar is that it is quite capable of setting up an environment for cancer growth. A consistent finding in epidemiological studies is that people who consume the most calories have significantly higher rates of cancer. There are several reasons why overeating causes cancer, but one overlooked reason is that more gene mutations occur in response to higher caloric intake. A host of vitamins and minerals are required to digest food and the more food we eat, the more nutrients we need. The immune system also needs nutrients to do the work of cancer cell surveillance and destruction. If we over utilize nutrients to digest excess quantities of food, they just aren’t available to help keep us cancer free.
We’ve known since 1931 that cancer cells crave sugar; excess sugar feeds rapidly dividing cancer cells. Otto Warburg, Ph.D., a prolific researcher in Germany, was given a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery that cancer cells depend mainly on glucose for their food supply. Cancer cells devour glucose without the aid of oxygen and consequently produce a large amount of lactic acid. The build up in lactic acid creates a more acidic pH in and around cancerous tissues. An acid pH in the body contributes to the overall physical fatigue experienced by cancer patients.2 Numerous studies in peer-reviewed journals show that sugar increases prostate, colon, and biliary tract cancer.
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Much more:
http://arizonaadvancedmedicine.com/the-scary-truth-about-sugar/TYY
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