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Sugar feeds cancer!<\/span><\/p>\n

End of blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just kidding……..<\/span><\/p>\n

I love sugar. But I try not to eat it! Tall order for anyone! But there are so many sugar substitutes out there that are actually healthy for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

But first, there is no doubt that sugar feeds diseases like cancer. <\/b><\/p>\n

But if I’m going to give up this pleasure, I want to understand why. So here is what I found: (4 paragraphs down, I speak English again so bear with me for these next 4 paragraphs!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sugar reprograms metabolism:<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike normal cells that generate ATP through oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria, cancer cells are reprogrammed to get their energy from glycolysis in the cytoplasm (Warburg phenomenon) Such transformation helps these cells to adapt to their hypoxic microenvironment, it also provides them with essential substrates required for the synthesis of macromolecules such as amino acids and nucleosides to help in rapid proliferation. That reprogramming is usually driven by oncogenes such as AKT1, mTOR, MYC.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high dependence of these cells on glucose metabolism serves as a basis for the omission of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-pet) imaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

(—hematology and oncology speciality consult. 4th Edition edited by Amanda F. Cashin and Brian A Van Tine Washington University St. Louis University School of Medicine)<\/span><\/p>\n

OK – that’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo for the information that diseased cells have gene mutations that help them use glucose to grow really quickly. And that this “high dependence on glucose” is what gives them their glow when you see them in a pet scan. Or at least that’s what I got out all of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

My doctor knows I’ve been into all this cool kind of stuff – so he walked out of his office one day and handed me this book, open to the section on glucose. Naturally I can only understand this in my crazy layman kind of way – and that is this: <\/span>SUGAR FEEDS DISEASE<\/b>. But my doctor said this is a very BIG concession for conservative oncology – in other words, this is news! <\/span><\/p>\n

Great news, because sugar is something we can actually control. We can decide whether or not to eat sugar!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Of all the different helpful hints that I’ve been talking about with trying to be healthy and to look beautiful! This one is not the easiest to do-but, at least it can be a start. However, I don’t want to leave you there. It’s very hard to cut out sugar – I know. And if you’re not eating raw and really eating a lot of protein and fats, (yes-we should be eating like the Japanese with fish for breakfast! Or think of the Jewish people – they eat Lox in the morning. The raw version of Lox is marinated salmon) it can be almost impossible. That’s why I started this series with Blog 2 on diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you wean off sugar?<\/span><\/p>\n

The way my doctor got me off of sugar is by giving me the following advice:<\/span><\/p>\n