Posted on 11/24/2015 2:21:27 PM PST by WhiskeyX
[[Sobering report. If you have cancer, you should avoid sugar of any kind.]]
And die a miserable sugarless death by the cancer anyways- no thanks
I understand That the article is talking about people who have cancer being at greater risk of dying from it- but what is the %? What increase? 2-3% increase? Are there not other factors in play that could be skewing the results like other food choices while eating sugar? How do we know that those who ‘gave up sugar’ didn’t also start on other regimes like excursive, taking multivitimins, eating certain foods/diets/ etc that could have had a significant influence on the results?
If I get cancer, and If Chemo doesn’t work- oh well, it’s been a fine life- filled with pleasures such as drinking pepsi and eating smarties candies- I’m certainly not going to worry over a 1-2-3 % increase in survival rates that MAY BE helped by a sugarless diet because quite frankly, life would SUCK without sugar anyways! (and caffeine!)
“I’m basically down to cookies and milk and ice cream”
Well. I think we have found the reason for your flatulence!
Lactose intolerance.
What’s with all the cancer posts? Did you just get diagnosed or something? I survived colon cancer, but I didn’t try to get into everybody else’s business. As Dear Abby used to say MYOB.
Lol-
Greatest Generation folks are in their 90’s, not eighties.
"Abstract
Carbohydrate metabolism via glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle is pivotal for cancer growth, and increased refined carbohydrate consumption adversely affects cancer survival. Traditionally, glucose and fructose have been considered as interchangeable monosaccharide substrates that are similarly metabolized, and little attention has been given to sugars other than glucose. However, fructose intake has increased dramatically in recent decades and cellular uptake of glucose and fructose uses distinct transporters. Here, we report that fructose provides an alternative substrate to induce pancreatic cancer cell proliferation. Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different; in comparison with glucose, fructose induces thiamine-dependent transketolase flux and is preferentially metabolized via the nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathway to synthesize nucleic acids and increase uric acid production. These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation. They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth. Cancer Res; 70(15); 6368–76. ©2010 AACR."
I literally just ate a fun size packet of M&Ms.
Screwed.
what percent does it adversely affect it?
WHAT?!! no WINE?!!!
Seriously now. I think food and ingredients are different in France... and they know how to eat. They savor and enjoy their meals. Americans tend to gulp down their meals.
Sugar was a mainstay during my youth in the 50’s as well as my parents before me...........
This will be “true,†until it is no longer “true.â€
Never was and never will be “true”
Is it possible they eat more fruits and vegetables than the typical American diet?
No, they didn’t have unlimited stores of high glycemic foods stuffing their cupboards to eat whenever they were hungry to supplement their potatoes.
They also worked their asses off instead of sitting on them watching Dances with Stars, or NFL.
There is a progression of the problem which takes more or less time depending on a number of factors among which are a person’s unique genes and gene expression; tolerance, sensitivity, insensitivity to insulin; chronic calories intake; exercise; time; and more. Diabetes mellitus Type II is also described as adult onset diabetes. This is because it supposedly “presents” when the patient is an adult, typically 40+ years of age.
Once you begin to understand the causes of Type II Diabetes, it becomes clear why this progression of the disorder occurs. It begins with a diet in which carbohydrates (sugars and sugars derived from starches) become such a large part of the diet through foods and beverages, it results in the chronic elevation of blood sugars and the chronic elevation of inflammatory insulin levels necessary for the cells to metabolize the sugars and store excess sugars as body fats.
The body’s metabolism, especially in the young who have a healthy appetite, more active growth hormones, and less time to accumulate fats I the liver and the pancreas may not show significant weight gains. Nonetheless, their liver, pancreas, and rest of the body is silently growing fatter with little notice. Usually aft a number of years except for the more extreme cases of thinner and fatter people, the weight gains and losses tend to balance out, but slowly begin to trend upwards. The waist line begins to add a couple of inches over several years. Finally a male may find their waist line is now exceeding 40 inches, and it is becoming very difficult to lose weight, and fter it is lost it soon returns. As a few more years go by his waist line increases from 40 to 44 and 46 inches. Once his waist reached 40 inches and larger, he silently began to experience the early stages of metabolic syndrome without noticing it at all. The metabolic syndrome means the insulin levels have been too high for such prolonged periods of time the cells became more and more insensitive to the insulin, As the insulin insensitivity worsened, the pancreas was caused to put out more and more insulin, which made the insulin insensitivity just that much more worse in a vicious circle. The higher the insulin levels went, the more the hormones controlling the storage of glucose as body fat was readjusted to aggressively store glucose as more body fat and not allow the existing body fat to be burned as fuel for the metabolism. This inability to burn body fat results in the progressive increase in body fat, weight gains, and an expanding waist line. When examined for diabetes, the physician may find the person has a metabolic syndrome and may by now show signs of pre-diabetes. With pre-diabetes there are a number of potential developing symptoms that may be associated with the early symptoms of diabetes, however a diagnosis of diabetes may not yet be made because the body’s metabolism is still heroically removing enough glucose from the bloodstream to keep it below an average of 100 mg/dl. As the male ages, however, the accumulation of the fats in the liver and pancreas along with the chronic worsening of the insulin insensitivity finally exceeds the ability of the pancreas to produce enough insulin to remove the excess glucose from the blood. This stage is often reached at some point after 40 years of age. It is only then, decades after the fats were becoming heavily accumulated in the liver and pancreas that the ability to remove glucose from the bloodstream well enough to remain at fairly normal levels that the symptoms of diabetes mellitus type II begin to become all too apparent and weight losses greater than 5-6% become increasingly impossible without severe starvation or bariatric surgery. That is also when the alternative, a ketogenic diet using nutritional ketosis to break the cycle makes it possible to lose substantial weight, control blood sugar without medications that raise insulin, and reverse the symptoms of diabetes.
At age 47 you are most likely experiencing the metabolic syndrome and perhaps be pre-diabetic, in which case you are just now reaching the age where you may soon experience the symptoms associated with being diabetic. The reason why you have not yet been diagnosed with diabetes while other people in your age cohort have may be attributable to differences in your genetic tolerance for insulin, your nutritional experience, and your exercise experience.
The main reason why the French lived so much longer while eating ‘badly’ was that they had their big meal at noon, went back to the fields to work, and worked off the food during the day, then came back and had smaller meal at night from what I understand- And the French used to at least, work long into their old age- hard physical jobs
The problems come I think when we sit around and eat badly- and have heavy larger meals at night- when we’re least active-
“What’s with all the cancer posts?”
They were requested by numerous readers. If they are not of interest to you, you can simply skip them.
Most of these studies are done in petri dishes. The reactions of cancer to sugars in the body is probably a little different. If I had cancer I'd probably try to have a near zero carb diet though.
If all this is true,I should be dead within the hour
.... is this where I do my opus ?
If you wanna live a long, empty, and boring life, do this; otherwise, enjoy yourself!
What?
You quit all that and you are still having fun??!!
Now you did it! They'll just have to think of something else to ban/say is bad for you/claim is evil causing millions of starving children in some distant land, etc....(/s)
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