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Sugar Increases Cancer Growth
Ross Hauser, M.D.

Endocrinology 101 says that if you eat sugar or a lot of carbohydrates, your blood sugar goes up. To get your blood sugar back in the normal range, your pancreas secretes insulin. The higher the blood sugar, the more insulin that is secreted.

If a person continues to eat too many carbohydrates over a long period of time, the cells of the body become resistant to the glucose-lowering effects of insulin. This medical condition is called insulin resistance. If the person doesn't change his or her diet and lifestyle, the condition can progress into overt diabetes or syndrome X. Syndrome X is a term used to describe a constellation of risk factors for heart disease, including insulin resistance, high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, and obesity. The underlying metabolic denominator in syndrome X is elevated insulin levels. There is little doubt about what contributes to these elevations-an elevated intake of refined carbohydrates.

Interestingly, research has shown that countries with the highest consumption of sugar also have the highest breast cancer mortality.

Sugar Is Poison
A poison, as defined by Stedman's Medical Dictionary, is any substance, either taken internally or applied externally that is injurious to health or dangerous to life. Surely sugar meets this definition as its effects on the human body over time can lead to the following conditions:


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Marion Hauser, M.S.,R.D.
When the blood sugar becomes too high, metabolism is altered, and disease processes begin. In regard to cancer, this means cancer physiology. High blood sugars have the following effects that aid cancer physiology:

Increase amount of energy source for cancer cells.

Increase insulin levels that stimulate cancer growth.

Elevate lactic acid levels that lower tumor pH.

Encourage anaerobic metabolism.

Increase protein kinase C, which increases cancer risk.

Increase prostaglandin E-2 levels, increasing platelet stickiness.

Lower immunity.

You Can Feel Great, And The Cancer Still Grows
The person who stops sugar and grains and eats more vegetables, drinks juices, and takes herbs is going to feel better. While the person feels better, the cancer can be growing and infiltrating more organs. A healthy diet and proper nutritional supplements help the body organs function better but do not in any way make the immune system destroy cancer cells. On the contrary, the various vitamins and nutrients that a person is taking to be healthy could, in fact, be feeding the cancer. It is only by appropriate objective monitoring that a person would know if his or her particular cancer was arresting (stop growing) or going into remission (shrinking).