Posted on 09/20/2024 7:58:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
It’s hard to imagine a life without sugar. But how much sugar is too much? The American Heart Association recommends that women eat no more than six teaspoons of sugar a day; for men, no more than nine. This means no more than 25-36 grams or about 100-150 calories a day of sugar. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends eating a maximum of 50 grams, but preferably no more than 25 grams of sugar per day.
Does that sound like a lot or a little? Well, when you consider that a 12 oz can of regular Coke has 39 grams of sugar, and even “healthy” foods like a granola bar (8 grams of sugar) and a container of blueberry greek yogurt (14 grams of sugar), are packed with hidden sugar, it certainly puts things in perspective. Most of us consume at least twice as much sugar as the recommendations allow.
(Excerpt) Read more at vogue.com ...
It’s not nuts at all:
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/16/sugar-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know/
36 grams of sugar a day?! I don’t need that kind of aggression in my life. Screw these obnoxious toads. That’s what the gym is for, work off a bad diet.
From the article
“Here’s where the myth that sugar fuels cancer was born: if cancer cells need lots of glucose, then cutting sugar out of our diet must help stop cancer growing, and could even stop it developing in the first place, right?
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. All of our healthy cells need glucose too, and there’s no way of telling our bodies to let healthy cells have the glucose they need without also giving it to cancer cells. And cancer cells also need lots of other nutrients too, like amino acids and fats; it’s not just sugar they crave...
This is particularly important for cancer patients, because some treatments can result in weight loss and put the body under a lot of stress. So poor nutrition from restrictive diets could also hamper recovery, or even be life-threatening. “
When we get cancer, it is a major hit to our bodies- and our bodies need energy to help combat the cancer- the body is often in a very weakened state during cancer and the resulting treatments-
I think happiness is one of them. If you enjoy your food it’s clearly unhealthy.
The fact is that some people have a metabolic system that handles sugar better than others.
“So poor nutrition from restrictive diets”
A Low Carb diet is NOT “poor nutrition”. Nor does it, in any way, restrict or reduce energy. FAT is a great source of energy, but cancer cells seem adverse to using it.
...Studies evaluating low carbohydrate diets and cancer start to show benefits when carbohydrates are restricted to less than 20% of total daily calories. As mentioned above, this is equal to 100 grams or less, based on a 2,000 calories-per-day diet. However, the majority of the research is looking at the benefits of a ketogenic diet, meaning less than 10% of total calories, which is less than 50 grams of carbohydrates for most people.” - University of California San Francisco
“Many cancer therapies are designed to target the biological differences between cancer cells and normal cells.
Nearly all cancer cells share one common trait: They feed off carbs or blood sugar in order to grow and multiply (2, 3Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source).
When you follow a ketogenic diet, some of the standard metabolic processes are altered, and your blood sugar levels go way down (2, 3Trusted Source).
Basically, this is claimed to “starve” the cancer cells of fuel.
As in all living cells, the long-term effect of this “starvation” may be that the cancer cells will grow more slowly, decrease in size, or possibly even die....
...A large number of these animal studies have shown a ketogenic diet can reduce tumor growth and improve survival rates (11Trusted Source, 12, 13Trusted Source).
One study of mice with metastatic cancer tested a ketogenic diet with or without oxygen therapy. When compared with a standard diet, the ketogenic diet resulted in a significant decrease in tumor growth (11Trusted Source).
The ketogenic diet also increased mean survival time by 56.7% (the equivalent of around 17 days). This number increased to 77.9% (or around 24 days) when combined with oxygen therapy (11Trusted Source).
Another study found that using a very low carb diet to restrict glucose levels prevented the growth of squamous cell carcinoma tumors in mice with lung cancer or esophageal cancer. Study subjects received only 0.1% of their calories from carbs (12)....
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ketogenic-diet-to-fight-cancer#possible-disadvantages
BTW, Healthline has never been a very Keto-friendly website.
It looks like the best approach is to combine a low carb (10% or less) diet WITH standard cancer treatments. The idea is to weaken cancer cells by reducing the fuel they rely on more than normal cells do, then finish them off with the standard treatment.
It also looks like some cancers are harmed more by starving them of sugar than others, which makes sense because some cancers may be less dependent on glucose as their primary food.
But the idea that a Low Carb diet weakens our bodies and reduces muscle mass is just DUMB! There is an enormous amount of evidence it doesn’t happen - and my own body demonstrates the same thing. We do NOT need carbs to live, and we do not need sugar to maintain weight or build muscle.
when they talked about poor nutrition, they were talking about those who cut out all carbs/sugars in the idea of ‘starving the cancers’- it’s not talking about adopting a “Low Carb” diet
That site isn’t the only site that claims that- medical sites also support what the site states-
[[FAT is a great source of energy, but cancer cells seem adverse to using it.]]
“Harvard study finds fatty diets may feed cancer and starve immune cells “
https://newatlas.com/medical/fat-cancer-starve-immune-cells/
Cancer ‘feeds on’ many things- including carbs/sugars - cutting out all carbs which the body needs is not a good idea- low carb diet when fighting cancer may be the best
No such thing as an essential carb. The body can generate the carbs from stored fats. Brain runs better on Ketones than it does glucose.
If you cut out almost all carbs, it IS a “Low Carb Diet”. Full “Carnivore” is a ZERO Carb diet - AND healthy!
“Harvard study finds fatty diets may feed cancer and starve immune cells “
Sorry, but Harvard is a full Vegan-worshipping nutrition place. It has put out totally bogus “studies” for years, all intended to support avoiding meat and eating all plants!
Take a look at what your link says: “High-fat diets are known to increase the risk for many types of cancer...obesity may promote metastasis in otherwise benign cancers, and fatty tissues can provide “hideouts” for cancer stem cells”
Yes, OBESITY - being very fat - is linked to cancer. That has nothing to do with a LOW CARB diet, where you replace carb & sugar calories with fat calories! As usually, Harvard seems to assume a 40% carb diet is a “high fat” diet, and bad - but a 40% carb diet is still stuffing yourself with SUGARS.
The article goes on to say, “They found that tumors grew much faster in the obese mice...”
No kidding! So use a Low Carb (5-15% Carbs) to get lean, and continue it to starve cancer cells. All “Harvard” showed was BEING fat was bad for cancer (agreed), not eating a high fat but caloric appropriate diet is bad!
Who would write this stuff?
Thank. I usually do not eat until tank is needing energy to function, often after many hours when active, and I seem to have low blood sugar, and while I eat protein and greens daily, sweet food supplies energy. Arthritis is an issue though, esp. with after must exercise.
Sugar seems to be a major source of anxiety and fear for people with cancer. There is a myth circulating that sugar feeds cancer and that avoiding sugar will prevent the growth of cancer. To set things straight…sugar does not cause cancer on its own. Giving sugar to cancer cells does not make them grow faster and depriving cancer cells of sugar does not make them grow more slowly. However, sugar may be indirectly involved in the development of cancer.How it happens
Much research shows that it is sugar’s relationship to overweight and obesity that may influence cancer cell growth the most. Sugar is a major source of extra calories, which can contribute to weight gain and obesity, but it’s not just sugar. Too many calories from any source - carbohydrate, fat and even protein – can lead to weight gain. - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/cancer-education-center/newsfeed-post/sugars-role-in-cancer-1/
One of the ways excess weight can lead to cancer is through insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factors in the blood. Both excess weight and lack of physical activity can lead to an increased risk of insulin resistance. Although insulin resistance can also be hereditary, it usually happens when the overweight body can no longer make enough insulin to remove sugar from the blood. Exercise also helps remove sugar from the blood. - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/cancer-education-center/newsfeed-post/sugars-role-in-cancer-1/
Touch my Code Red and you die.😠
Been doing that for years
Have a box of brown sugar in my pantry. Unopened for 10 years.
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