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
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Have we discussed apricot kernels in the past?
So drinking apple cider vinegar won’t help with alkalizing?
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There is so much wrong with your post, but it's late, and I don't have the time to respond. Since this is the last comment you made, I will address it alone.
As to the imbibing of low pH (acid) or high pH (alkaline) drinks & foods, the human body is highly capable of dealing with (at least in the short term) even our worst choices. Unless you are doing shots of battery acid, anything you would ever drink pales to the extreme acid nature (pH 1.2 to 3.0) of the normally functioning human stomach. Examples include: Lemon juice (pH 2.3), carbonated soda (pH 3.0 to 3.5), orange juice (pH 3.5), tomato juice (pH 4.5), coffee (pH 5.0), saliva (pH 6.35 to 6.85), milk (pH 6.8), blood (pH 7.35 to 7.45), lye (pH 14.0) - obviously not a beverage of choice.
Homeostatic mechanisms will absolutely maintain your blood pH between 7.35 and 7.45. Therefore, the pH of fluids both inside and outside cells remain nearly constant despite adding to, or the body's manufacturing of strong acids and/or bases. This amazing physiological phenomenon is known as the buffer system and easily deals with most acid/base challenges we throw at our bodies. To suggest that consuming phosphoric acid, in concentrations like those found in the typical can of cola, will greatly depress your pH is pretty out there and makes no sense.
Not cheap, is it? Will Obamacare pay for it?Ha! Not likely! Obamacare pays for the little pill that kills however.
No but I’d like to know if it’s any good for people like me that craves sugar.I'm hoping it does. It was a chiropractor (that I follow online) that suggested it. His advice has been good so far, but who knows. We'll see...
Thank you. The extra word “processed” in the title is misleading.
No difference
:D! Thanks for the morning LOL!
Try the ph test strips for yourself. If you think that the results that will not agree with your assessment are incorrect because of the unconventional use of test strips orally feel free to use the more accurate urine method.
I have found that empirically, I observe differently than you say. Now what am I to believe, your statement, or my lying eyes? To each his own. Blessings on you and your reliance on western medicine. Good luck too!
Yes, that would tell me the pH in my mouth.
It greatly depresses body Ph.
It wouldn't tell me my body pH.
If you're in an auto accident, would you want us to call the nutritionist, herbalist, acupuncturist, or the massage therapist first? I think I'll stick with calling 911. But then again, I'm reliant on western medicine. Good luck with the witch doctor, though.
You appear to be just another advocate of anti-technological mysticism who is eager to sell us the newest magical cure for a pH imbalance, systemic candida, parasites, or other magical "diseases." Your posts on this thread are mountains of misinformation, and display a total lack of understanding about how the human body works. You are a perfect candidate for the sellers of mystical health therapies. Good luck to you too.
If I was in an auto accident, I would go to the emergency room and see a doctor. And just as quickly, I would get out of there. Pretty obvious.
Your supposed superiority of understanding has made you not only obtuse, but rude. Fine, I will resist playing straw man games with you.
You can take the western medicine official standard that if you survive cancer for five years and one month and die, you were cured. Perhaps it will make you feel better when we carve that on your head stone. But, in the west, we have some of the highest cancer rates. Seems your reliance on that philosophy is with a stacked deck. Not a game I care to play.
Perhaps you are too blind to see that your reliance on white smocks and stethoscopes is no different than a witch doctor, when you put your faith in a system rather than results...
That’s your choice. I do know that yesterdays science is tomorrows witch doctor, it has always been that way. Think about it. And also, if you want to learn something, try a bit harder to listen, and work the jaws less. You will be perceived as less of an asshole, have more friends and actually be able to teach and learn better.
Just a tiny pill for what ails ya.
Ohhhh Todddd...
You’re the guy who thinks the pH in your mouth at any given time has something to do with your health. That’s more than just a little wacky. I make no claims of superiority, and have an open mind to information not based on anti-technology mysticism. Even so, what you’ve posted here is a bunch of nonsense based on a total lack of understanding of how the human body functions. That you post it with such certitude is what is truly amazing. I read a lot of unusual stuff on the forum when it comes to human health, but your take/understanding is more bizarre than most. I harbor no illusions that what I say in reply to you will have absolutely no impact on your zealous misunderstanding of the subject. However, I reply anyway simply because I don’t want anyone else to buy into the your nonsense if at all possible. I’m a benevolent kind of guy.
Mass and Toddsterpatriot are very nasty individuals. I offer you a word of caution. Toddsterpatriot is also a FReeper Creeper, as he will search all of your posts on other threads, and then make nasty comments on them as well. I made a tongue-in-cheek comment about some FReepers defending Monsanto so much that they must work for that company, and HinkleyBuzzard claimed to be a psychiatrist and told me to check myself into the loony bin and his comment was not tongue-in-cheek. You know, because all real doctors make diagnoses online! Mase chimed in a little later heartily agreeing that I’m loony as a tune. These guys have nothing better to do than insult those of us that have gone outside of Big Gov funded research to seek answers of our own. They are quite the opposite of conservative and are well acquainted with Alinsky tactics. You will find that although you have offered them options to see that your methods work, they will continue to call you a liar without offering any evidence of thier own that you are wrong.
Ok, do it with urine then as I said in my prior posting.
But I kinda suspect you will not try it, and therefore will not see the results, still feeling justified in your position.
Naturopathic worked for me, I had serious health issues that the doctors were not able to help. I once was just like you, and laughed and “health nuts”. When I reached the end of my road, one of those health nuts changed my life, and turned things around for me. I left the pharmiculture world and never looked back.
I hope for your sake, you do not follow the same path, it was a rough one.
Take it from me, things are not at all what they seem at times. And the Ph levels of your digestive tract and the bio culture inside of it is far more of a percentage of your immune system that you realize. Modern Science is just now coming up to speed on that issue. So, my advice, get a doctor that got out of school just a few years ago in your circle of consultants.
Yeah there is a lot of voodoo in the nature health world, but then, the war on cholesterol is voodoo more based on medical patents and accounting than anything to do with science, just like the war on serotonin uptake.
A little more skepticism in your life towards the pharmaceutical culture that has overtaken western science would do you some real good. Like Hippocrates said, give no man poison.
I will not regail you with success stories, you would not believe them anyway, or try to teach you a different perspective, that you have to want, you cannot be dragged into modern medicine kicking and screaming. Yes, modern medicine, because yesterdays voodoo, when found to empirically work becomes tomorrows cure.
I never was talking about blood ph by the way. It was your assumption that blinded you to the plain text. See my dilemma? It is like trying to talk conservative to a liberal, they do not have the perspective to see where you are coming from.
How do you avoid the voodoo? Read all sides of an issue, and if you can find traces of confirmation in modern medical studies, look there. Five years ago if you told someone that probiotics were a major part of the immune system, they laughed at you. Today it is 50 50, tomorrow its is just modern science.
The Ph of the digestive tract is very important to a proper functioning bio culture in your intestines. The strength of your immune system is directly related to your ability to reject cancer.
Yes, it actually matters what you eat. Foods are both fuel and maintenance.
Yes, we have a difference of opinion, but bear with me, you might not understand all the issues you reject outright. Now, unless you have something with some more substance besides derision, or some curiosity about some point, I suspect our conversation is fruitless. You go your way, I will go mine.
The way I see it, most people in their old age eat a pile of pills for breakfast. 90% of them eat pharmaceuticals and are miserable, and 10% of them eat vitamins. Odd thing is, the smaller group tend to be far healthier.
Go, look for yourself.
My goal by the way, is to find a way to supply to my body all the vitamins I need by eating food, not taking vitamin pills.
But that is another subject I suspect we would diverge in. The organic vs chemical grown food thingie.
Normally I love to discuss this stuff, but you make it SO Hard.
Is this the first time you realized that the pH in your mouth can be different than the pH in your blood?
How can your claim be true? I haven’t mocked any of your silly posts in weeks.
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