“The body actually needs sugar to combat cancer cells.”
That is nuts!
It’s not nuts at all:
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/16/sugar-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know/
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-