Posted on 07/18/2013 3:37:50 PM PDT by neverdem
Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, your dietary habits could be significantly adding to your risk of developing cancer. New research published in the journal Nature Medicine has confirmed that processed sugar is one of the primary driving forces behind the growth and spread of cancer tumors, so much so that the future of cancer screening could rely on scanning the body for sugar accumulation.
Scientists from University College London (UCL) in the U.K. made this discovery after experimenting with a new cancer detection method that involves utilizing a unique form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). After sensitizing an MRI scanner to look specifically for glucose in the body, it was revealed that cancer tumors, which feed off sugar, light up brightly as they contain high amounts of sugar.
"The new technique, called 'glucose chemical exchange saturation transfer' (glucoCEST), is based on the fact that tumors consume much more glucose (a type of sugar) than normal, healthy tissues in order to sustain their growth," explains a recent UCL announcement, noting that tumors appear as "bright images" on MRI scans of mice.
Traditionally, cancer screenings have involved the use of low-dose radiation injections to identify the presence of tumors, which makes sense as radiation is another known cause of cancer. The things that trigger and promote cancer development and spread, in other words, can also be used by doctors to detect it inside the body. And now sugar can officially be added to this list.
"The method uses an injection of normal sugar and could offer a cheap, safe alternative to existing methods for detecting tumors, which require the injection of radioactive material," says Dr. Simon Walker-Samuel, lead researcher of the study from the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI).
Interestingly, it was also noted by the study's senior author that the amount of sugar in "half a standard sized chocolate bar" is all it takes to effectively identify the presence of tumors using the glucoCEST method. This is astounding, as it suggests that even relatively low amounts of sugar have the potential to promote cancer proliferation.
The UCL study is hardly the only one to have identified a connection between processed sugar consumption and diseases like cancer. Other research, including that being currently being conducted by Dr. Robert H. Lustig, M.D., a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), confirms that the bulk of chronic illnesses prevalent today are caused by sugar consumption.
You can watch a presentation from Dr. Lustig entitled Sugar: The Bitter Truth here: http://youtube.com
As far as cancer is concerned, hormones produced by the body in response to sugar consumption also feed cancer cells. This means that every time you down a soda or eat a piece of cake, your body produces certain chemicals that tell cancer cells to not only start taking up sugar, but also to grow in size and spread.
"What we're beginning to learn is that insulin can cause adverse effects in various tissues, and a particular concern is cancer," says Dr. Lewis Cantley, head of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard University, as quoted during an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes.
"If you happen to have a tumor that has insulin receptors on it, then it will get stimulated to take up the glucose that's in the bloodstream," he adds. "So rather than going to the fat or to the muscle, the glucose now goes into the tumor, and the tumor uses it to grow."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.mdtmag.com
http://cancerdefeated.com
http://youtube.com
Republished from NaturalNews
Written by Jonathan Benson
Funny you mention that because I don’t drink milk. (makes mental note)
Fine. The cancer still can't tell if the glucose is processed or not.
drinking phosphoric acid is not so natural. It greatly depresses body Ph.
What's the pH before you drink it? What is it after?
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“How does the cancer know the difference between processed and unprocessed sugar? “
It’s more expensive.
Your body turns refined sugar (sucrose) into glucose. It is such a simple process for your body- it can do it in your mouth (hence cavities). Other foods need to be broken down further into the digestive system.
It's the way your body gets quick energy. Unfortunately, many are addicted to it.
No kidding. And the organic sugar, forget about it.
Funny thing about asthma. I had allergy induced ashtma. being an AF brat they gave me shots to treat them. I was allergic to basically every living thing except mud. I now have two Great Pyrennes dogs and two cats. Civvie medicine never treats the cause, they throw inhalers at people. It’s a damn shame and I get on my soapbox about this whenever I can.
I will remember that about black coffee. The stuff at work is horrid but I’ll deal with it without half and half.
wait til the limbs find out that nicotine prevents cancer...
REALLY? A ban on it?
You guys are all wet!
What to believe.
Every year or so they come up with something else that causes Cancer.
Once it was eggs, then overcooked meat, today it’s sugar.
I believe the pure processed sugar mainly matters before the cancer starts. It creates an environment where the beginning of cancer is more likely.
For a short period after eating the pure stuff your sugar levels are much higher than the human body is historically used to. This probably gives too much of an energy surplus to your cells and causes them to divide faster for a short period. The faster division is more likely to result in coding errors which lead to cancer.
Cancer is basically cells which duplicate without control. Once the cancer begins, eating less sugar doesn’t really matter. The cancer cells eat the same thing as all your cells. You can’t starve a tumor without starving yourself.
The good news is that if your body Ph is high, things cannot use the glucose, but you can.
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So, high pH in the body could help you lose weight? If so, how does one increase the acidity?
I thought “sugar” in ALL forms was fuel for nearly ALL cells?
Who said anything about a ban?
That is diametrically opposite to my stand.
Cancer is not like fungus.
Cancer cell are not any more pH sensitive than regular cells.
You can’t change your body pH more than about .1 SU without dying.
Changing your Ph will not help with weight gain or loss to my understanding. Sorry that would be wonderful.
Test it your self with a Ph test strip. Do not drink or eat anything for 20 minutes before the test or residuals in your mouth will throw the test off. Test your saliva, drink a soda, and wait 20 minutes and test again. If you test closer than 20 minutes the residual soda will throw the test way acid and give you a false reading. (Ans: lower or more acid, depends on body mass, contents of stomach and quantity of drink)
Second test: Test, then drink a solution of one teaspoon to one table spoon natural cider vinegar (a natural acid!) stirred into a tall glass of water. Wait 20 minutes and test again. Your Ph will read 1 Ph level... Higher! (Ans: While vinegar is acid, when it is digested it is alkaline.) If it was simply the acid balance of what you drink, your ph should be lower just like the soda, but it is actually higher. (again, YMMV. Do on empty stomach for best results)
Third home science experiment, drink the same amount of white vinegar or cheap non natural apple cider vinegar stirred into a glass of water like above. Your Ph will be shifted acid, not alkaline. Cheap apple cider vinegar is actually white vinegar with apple flavoring. Tastes the same but not the same effect with the body.
By the way, Apple cider vinegar has been for years a back woods cure for many a thing. (My guess, all of them fungal) The trick is to switch the fungus off and into its spore phase or seed phase by making the environment alkaline. Works decently with most stomach "flu" or "food poisoning" cases. They are bad fungus, not viral or salmonella, they are "diagnosed" at home, and not by a real doctor. And in most cases the diagnosis is wrong.
WARNING, DO NOT DRINK PURE VINAGAR, it will burn the snot out of your throat and piss you off at me. STIR into WATER. More than two table spoons of vinegar in a 16 oz glass of water or not stirring it in can irritate your throat badly.
Don't want you irritated, want you healthy!
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