Sugar Feeds Cancer?
Copyright (c) 2007 Ainsley Laing
Is there a link between consumption of sugar and cancer? Sixty years ago, Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of glucose as fuel, more and more cancer cells. In other words, the sugar feeds cancer. Ok, that makes sense. All tissues of our body uses glucose as fuel.
First, some sad things. Some recent studies have followed this path and has been associated with consumption of sugar, several types of cancer:
A study of women in Mexico, combined with a diet rich in carbohydrates breast cancer. The same coupling was made by a study in American women.
A small study at the University of Southern California has identified a significantly increased risk for cancer of the small intestine in people who consume more sugar in coffee, tea and soft drinks, food. (Not the purpose of the study. We have the chance to find).
A Harvard School of Public Health study showed that a diet rich in simple carbohydrates foods such as white rice, white bread and white potatoes increased risk of pancreatic cancer in women overweight and sedentary. Besides cigarettes, the first risk factor identified for pancreatic cancer. The risk of colorectal cancer has been linked to insulin levels higher, too.
The results of the study of pancreatic cancer have a meaning. Pancreas produces insulin
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