There’s a lot of confusing information and advice out there around sugar.
It’s been made the villain of our diet, but where does the consensus lie between how sugar and cancer are linked?
Does it cause cancer? Do sugar feed cancer cells, making them grow more aggressively? And how does the sugar we consume through food and drink affect our health, and what can be done about this?
In this post, we’re taking a long hard look at sugar.
We’ll focus specifically on sugar and cancer, busting some myths and covering what researchers are studying in the hopes of finding new ways to treat people with cancer.
And we’ll cover why the amount of sugar in our diets is cause for concern. A high-sugar diet can be bad news when it comes to cancer risk, but not because it often appears in the headlines.
But first the basics, what our bodies need sugar for and where it comes from in our diet.
Glucose – the fuel of life
Search for sugar and cancer on the internet and it doesn’t take long to find alarming warnings that sugar is the “white death” and “cancer’s favorite food”.
But this idea that sugar is responsible for kick-starting or fueling a cancer’s growth is an over-simplification of some complicated biology.
Source: knowridge.com