Posted on 08/03/2019 3:55:13 AM PDT by Windflier
Hospitals feed cancer patients sugar and high carbohydrate diets for a simple reason: they are abysmally ignorant of the role of nutrition in health and disease hence their burgeoning growth, packed rooms, and return customers.
Even though the science itself shows at least since the mid-20s with Otto Warburgs cancer hypothesis that tumors prefer to utilize sugar fermentation to produce energy rather than the much more efficient oxygen-based phosphorylation* hospitals have actually invited corporations like McDonalds to move into their facilities to enhance their patients gustatory experience, presumably to provide comfort and take the edge off of the painful surgery, radiation and chemo treatments erroneously proffered to them as the only reasonable standard of care.
But the times are changing, with new research requiring these medical institutions to reform their dietary strategies, at least if they wish to claim that their interventions are in fact evidence-based, as they so often claim.
Study Reveals Sugar Doesnt Just Feed But Causes Cancer
A groundbreaking study, uncovered by one of our volunteer researchers at Greenmedinfo, is the first of its kind to identify sugar, not only as fuel source for an already existing cancer, but as a primary driver in oncogenesis i.e. the initiation of cancerous characteristics (phenotype) within previously healthy cells.
Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and titled, Increased sugar uptake promotes oncogenesis via EPAC/RAP1 and O-GlcNAc pathways, researchers addressed a common perception (or misperception) in the cancer research community regarding sugars relationship to cancer: namely, increased glycolysis [sugar based metabolism] is frequently viewed as a consequence of oncogenic events that drive malignant cell growth and survival.
Contrary to this conventional view, the new study provide[s] evidence that increased glycolytic activation itself can be an oncogenic event. That is to say, the activation of sugar-based metabolism in a cell driven by both the presence of increased quantities of glucose and the increase glucose receptors on the cell membrane surface (i.e. overexpression of a glucose transporter) drives cancer initiation.
Moreover, the study found that Conversely, forced reduction of glucose uptake by breast cancer cells led to phenotypic reversion. In other words, interfering with sugar availability and uptake to the cell causes the cancer cell to REGRESS towards its pre-cancer structure-function (phenotype).
What Are The Implications of This Research to the Diet?
What this new research indicates is that sugar of which Americans consume an astounding 160 lbs annually (imagine: 31 five-pound bags for each of us!) is one of the primary causes of metabolic cell changes in the body consistent with the initiation and promotion of cancer. And, the research indicates that removing it from the diet, and depriving the cells of it, could REVERSE cancer. Why is this so surprising? Its because Americans have been lead like lambs to the slaughter to think of prevention as early detection, focusing not on identifying and removing the well known nutritional and environmental causes of cancer, rather, to spend their time, energy, and money on cause-marketing campaigns focused on finding a cure as if one didnt already exist right in front of our noses, or more aptly, on the end of our forks.
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Sugar (processed sugar) is a toxin. Has been known for decades.
Leads to heart disease and cancer
Thank you for posting this.
Prayers lifting, FRiend
Tatt
Sorry for the late response. She did conventional radiation and chemo. It was tough. very tough but she’s fine now. She lost weight. She couldn’t eat or keep anything down. But I think the part that got her over it was a positive mental attitude. She did it for her family. I was scared and tried not to show it. But she’s a trooper and 12 year survivor. Get the best hospital and doctors you can find. I wish you both the best of luck. It’s a tough road but just don’t give up.
Thank you for your response,I was asking for a relative. Thank heavens your wife has been 12 years cancer free. I agree that mental attitude really has an effect and that is a tough one to work on as well.
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