Sugar Identified as a Top Cause of the Global Cancer Epidemic

Sorry it's long but it's all relevant:

According to the Credit Suisse Research Institute’s 2013 study1 “Sugar: Consumption at a Crossroads,” as much as 40 percent of US healthcare expenditures are for diseases directly related to the overconsumption of sugar.

Incredibly, we spend more than $1 trillion each year fighting the damaging health effects of sugar, which runs the gamut from obesity and diabetes, to heart disease and cancer.

The fact that sugar and obesity are linked to an increased risk of cancer is now becoming well-recognized. According to a report2 on the global cancer burden, published in 2014, obesity is responsible for an estimated 500,000 cancer cases worldwide each year.

Nearly two-thirds of obesity-related cancers — which include colon, rectum, ovary, and womb cancers — occur in North America and Europe.3 A more recent British report estimates obesity may result in an additional 670,000 cancer cases in the UK alone over the next 20 years.

According to BBC News,4 the Cancer Research UK and the UK Health Forum report are calling for a ban on junk food ads aired before 9pm to address out of control rise in obesity and obesity-related diseases.

Meanwhile, a German investigation into diet-induced diseases and related treatment costs reveal that sugar-induced oral disease represents the greatest chunk of that nation’s health care costs.


As noted by the Dental Tribune:5

“… [T]he substantial impact of sugar consumption found in the study was mainly due to the costs of treating caries and other diseases of the hard tissue of teeth, hypertensive and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, rectal and colon cancer, as well as chronic kidney disease.”

How Excess Sugar and Obesity Promotes Cancer

One of the key mechanisms by which sugar promotes cancer and other chronic disease is through mitochondrial dysfunction.

Since sugar is not our ideal fuel, it burns dirty with far more reactive oxygen species than fat, which generates far more free radicals which in turn causes mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage along with cell membrane and protein impairment.

Research6 has also shown that chronic overeating in general has a similar effect. Most people who overeat also tend to eat a lot of sugar-laden foods — a double-whammy in terms of cancer risk.

Chronic overeating places stress on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the membranous network found inside the mitochondria of your cells. When the ER receives more nutrients than it can process, it signals the cell to dampen the sensitivity of the insulin receptors on the surface of the cell.

Thus continuously eating more than your body really needs promotes insulin resistance by the mere fact that your cells are stressed by the work placed on them by the excess nutrients. Insulin resistance in turn is at the heart of most chronic disease, including cancer.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup Primary Culprit in Cancer

This also helps explain why intermittent fasting (as well as other forms of calorie restriction) is so effective for reversing insulin resistance, reducing your risk of cancer, and increasing longevity.


Without Sugar, Cancer Cannot Thrive

One of the most powerful strategies I know of to avoid and/or treat cancer is to starve the cancer cells by depriving them of their food source, which is primarily sugar and excessive protein.

Unlike all the other cells in your body, which can burn carbs or fat for fuel, cancer cells have lost that metabolic flexibility and can only thrive if there enough sugar present.


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Sorry Eddie, but they used to say exactly the same thing about butter.  I am convinced that the primary cause is pollution, even when we think we are breathing clean air we aren't, and they don't want to talk about that.

Oh I can completey agree on pollution being a massive factor!
Still think sugar had its place in the top evil drugs of the world.

I'm hooked myself sass. I love chocolate sometimes.

Interesting eddie. I believe sugar is a prob.

Wont be long before they tell us to stop milk intake or eggs or pepper.

I will never stop eating eggs!!! I would rather die!

I don't think milk is that healthy if I'm honest anyway.

Sugar is a very bad drug, simple because it's so so so addictive!

eddie have you tried this.
Crack 1 or 2 eggs into a saucepan of boiling water, they cook really quick.
Assume 1 is enough.
When cooked put it into a cup which has had boiling water in it to retain heat, chop/dice it up in the cup until very small, add bit of salt to taste, a shake of Worcester sauce, tomato sauce or balsamic vinegar, lightly stir and spread 1 egg on one slice of buttered bread or toast, put another on top of it, cut into 2 and scoff it.
Had the tom sauce one this morning.

Luvlee jublee.

gotta try that stormee...

Me too storm! That really does sound nice!

eddie wrote:Sorry it's long but it's all relevant:

According to the Credit Suisse Research Institute’s 2013 study1 “Sugar: Consumption at a Crossroads,” as much as 40 percent of US healthcare expenditures are for diseases directly related to the overconsumption...

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Unlike all the other cells in your body, which can burn carbs or fat for fuel, cancer cells have lost that metabolic flexibility and can only thrive if there enough sugar present.

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Yet another bullshit claim from yet another bunch of non-scientists, who obviously don't know what they're talking about...

WHERE are the replicated double blind trials, the peer reviews, the publication in a genuine and recognised Nutrition and Dietetics journal ?

IT HAS been recognised for the best part of the past century, that heavy consumption of processed white sugar (sucrose), corn syrup (dextrose) and maltose, as well as saturated fats and oils, and processed white flours, all contribute in a bad way to the occurence of cancers, heart diseases, strokes, and other health problems..

BESIDES this story being full of a lot of lies and mistruths from a purely biochemistry perspective, this anonymous blogger doesn't tell us exactly which "sugars" this reputed research is supposed to be looking at == somehow, I doubt that he/she even knows the differences...


SO, tell me eddie -- can you explain the Krebs Citric Acid Cycle to me, and its relevance to the utilisation of saccharides in the metabolic processes on a cellular level ?
IF not, than maybe that goes someways to explaining just how and why you get sucked so easily into these crappy populist pseudo-scientific nonsense health stories..

Stormee wrote:eddie have you tried this.
Crack 1 or 2 eggs into a saucepan of boiling water, they cook really quick.
Assume 1 is enough......

Luvlee jublee.

POACHED Eggs, mashed up on toast, with your favourite flavouring....

DO YOU add a little vinegar into your boiling water,  Stormee  ?

I'll cite stress as the biggest killer in the world.   But from a dietary point, refined sugar is top of the list for me.   It's an empty food, and the cause of an acidic body and weight related illness, not to mention rotten teeth.

Of course we have environmental factors.   But I still think stress causes and triggers cancer in many cases.

Here's an interesting article about cancer.

http://www.onlinecancerinfo.com/docs/7weakspots.htm

HoratioTarr wrote:Here's an interesting article about cancer.

http://www.onlinecancerinfo.com/docs/7weakspots.htm

That is really interesting Horatio! Never seen that befroe though I've read of acidity etc
Thank you

eddie wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:Here's an interesting article about cancer.

http://www.onlinecancerinfo.com/docs/7weakspots.htm

That is really interesting Horatio! Never seen that befroe though I've read of acidity etc
Thank you

The heart never gets cancer.  That's pretty interesting.

HoratioTarr wrote:

eddie wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:Here's an interesting article about cancer.

http://www.onlinecancerinfo.com/docs/7weakspots.htm

That is really interesting Horatio! Never seen that befroe though I've read of acidity etc
Thank you

The heart never gets cancer.  That's pretty interesting.

Wow. Never actually thought of that.

Apparently the heart can get cancer but it is very rare.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2406/

Something to do with it being a muscle (which I kind of guessed at) and the fact that is doesn't regenerate?

eddie wrote:Apparently the heart can get cancer but it is very rare.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2406/

Something to do with it being a muscle (which I kind of guessed at) and the fact that is doesn't regenerate?

I think it said the heart can get growths but not the cancer within itself.  It does have blood vessels and mucous membrane within but as you say, I think it's something to do with the way the muscle works as opposed to other muscles.

HoratioTarr wrote:

eddie wrote:Apparently the heart can get cancer but it is very rare.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2406/

Something to do with it being a muscle (which I kind of guessed at) and the fact that is doesn't regenerate?

I think it said the heart can get growths but not the cancer within itself.  It does have blood vessels and mucous membrane within but as you say, I think it's something to do with the way the muscle works as opposed to other muscles.

Never really thought about it until you mentioned it though.