Several years ago I overheard my dad’s cousin (undergoing chemo)tell my mom that she had no appetite except for chocolate. Her doctor said it doesn’t matter as long as you eat something. I had to almost literally bite my tongue to stop myself from saying “sugar feeds cancer!”
Perhaps her doctor decided that her situation was dire enough that it no longer mattered. She looked really good that night-perky and cute-but passed away a month or two later. I wondered at the time if eating only sugary foods made a difference.
Dark chocolate is full of anti-oxidants and theobromine. I normally eat 80% chocolate from Ukraine, 85% from Aldi, or 60% Ghiradelli chips. Often I drink dissolved cocoa powder in water. That’s 100% chocolate with no sugar. Costco used to have Rodale’s Dutch Cocoa which dissolved easily and tastes MUCH better than Nestle’s, Hershey’s, or Great Value. Some say raw cocoa is even better for you, but it’s multiple times the cost. BTW, “theobromine” literally means “God-food”. Cocoa powder has more than anything else. Theobromine is what kills dogs and is why you shouldn’t feed them chocolate.
My dad (who passed on about four years ago with cancer) did the Chemo, and simply had no real appetite. He would agree to do milkshakes. I knew at that point about the sugar angle to this (it’s widely discussed in Germany). But the problem is that if you have virtually no appetite....and this is the only thing agreeable, that’s pretty much the road you are stuck on.
Someone ought to come up with a fruit-type smoothie with no added sugar, but has some kind of elements that would give you a thousand calories per 24-ounce drink.
I think we’d all be better off to trim out the sugar products, and go back home-made items that we control the sugar and bad stuff. For the past five years, I’ve limited myself to one soda per month, and gone mostly to plain ice tea, beer, coffee and water as my daily drink.
Thing is, if sugar caused cancer, I’d expect cancer rates to be way higher in women than men, because men don’t tend to be such suckers for sugar as women are. Men tend to crave meat and salt. It’s women who are the chocoholics, generally. Yet men are more susceptible to cancer than women are.