sugar feeds cancer...fact or fiction

When one finds out that they have GBM, their only hope of long term survival is a complete life style change-and limitation or elimination of sugar is certainly one of them-

Why is this even an issue??? You find sugar in everything, 2/3 of Americans are overweight, they eat sugar with sugar. My kids would drink soda every minute of the day and why? because it is full with nothing but sugar.

You need to change over to natural or organic foods and give your body the best chance to survive.

Joe

Thanks for all your input guys...I really appreciate it!! Can anyone recommend a "diet", something to follow (it's gotta be written down somewhere) of a healhier choices to help in the fight. If I were the one preparing my fathers meals every day it wouldn't be such a big deal but I am not so I need something to say "here this is what we need to be doing" Please! Something! Anything! Book titles, personal plans, web sites ANYTHING!!!!

I need some sort of documentation to bring to my dad and his girlfriend and say this is what is working for other people fighting the same fight we are and doing really well with it, what do we have to lose!?!?!"

Renee

A good book to have is The Edgar Catye Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy.  You can try any big book store or get it thru the Edgar Cayce organizations A.R.R.,  which is the Assn for Research & Englightenment located in Virginia Beach, VA.  Edgar Cayce is considered the father of holistic medicine, a man very much ahead of his time.  I attended massage school there back in 1995.  If you google either Edgar Cayce VA BCH VA or the ARE Va Bch VA you will get the phone numbers, website etc.  There is a huge library there & you can request different health files.

Also the "Cayce Diet" is an 80% Alkaline 20% Acidic...I know I have it here somewhere in my library of things but can't put my fingers on it at the moment.  One of the things Cayce said was to eat 3 almonds a day & you wouldn't have cancer...I was recently diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Disease .  My Dr wants to put me in a chemo trial, then mastectomy, then radiation...I haven't decided what I am going to do at the moment,..I'm looking at alternative therapies...I should have continued to eat the almonds!  And I should have stayed on the healthy lifestyle when I was in massage school.  Unfortunately I didn't.  I am also a sugarholic...I have been cutting down considerably on that, stopped soda & am drinking pomeranate w pear juice...I love it...picked up white grape juice today.

Cayce said one of the best things to drink is white grape juice.  I went onto a website called; www.thejuiceguys.com. which was on the bottle of pomegranate  & it said that concord grape juice is the highest juice in antioxidants...I have to laugh at all these shows on tv with all the health guys & everything they are saying..it's what Cayce said back in 1930-40.

 The diet gives what foods are alkaline & what are acidic, so it's not like you have to eat a specific food each day...As soon as I find it I am going back on it myself.

Hope this helps

Jeanine

On 2/6/2008 Chessie wrote:

 

On 2/6/2008 Timmys Brain stem glioma wrote:

 Well we jut have to agree to disagree . All the thousands of people who saying  cane sugar and corn sugar ( you find in soft drinks) is bad for you, cant be wrong . What is causing the greatest healt problems around the world ? Sugar ! So it does more harm than good . My son has kidney failure as well, so we had to limit his sugar intake for years ,because it was not good for him. People beat cancer by changing their diet and life stile and stay cancer free . So there is solid ground to the claim ,that sugar simply wont benefit you. In the end ,we just have to educate our selfs and come to our own educated decision about it .So,all you out there research sugar vs cancer and see what you come up with.

regards Liz 

Liz,  just a little something to support your position........

If you search the Internet using the words "cancer" and "sugar," one person's name will come up again and again: Otto Warburg, Ph.D. More than 70 years ago, Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize in medicine when he discovered that cancer cells require glucose (sugar) for growth. All cells have a requirement for glucose, but cancer cells consume as much as 4 to 5 times more glucose than normal, healthy cells. In fact, they're unable to multiply rapidly without it. It's simply astonishing to me that this simple knowledge hasn't become the basis for Rule One in any cancer fight: Stop eating sugar immediately.

You'd think people in the medical field would be aware of something this important!

 

I too am very interested in the subject of sugar and cancer. Early this summer a small-scale study commenced at Albert Einstein, a teaching hospital in the Bronx, to investigate the claim that sugar feeds cancer.

I  spoke to the lead investigator. I sensed that he leaned toward supporting this belief (with the caveat that it applies only to solid tumor cancers) but refused to speculate on the outcome of his study, which involved giving patients with advanced cancer very low carb diets.

So far, I have not been able to track him down again.As soon as I learn anything relevant, I will share it with this group.

Judy 

Try "fantastic Voyage" by Ray Kurzweil. He's a renaissance type guy who made his fortune making electronic keyboards (every musician knows his name) and has become a proponent of diet/exercise to live rto over 100  healthfully.

It's an interesting book; he eats a scarily low carb diet but seems to be having excellent results.

I'm trying to cut way down on carbs (already eliminated most sugars) and it is TOUGH. Carbs are in EVERYTHING.

But I'm trying.

On 2/6/2008 Chiroman95 wrote:

When one finds out that they have GBM, their only hope of long term survival is a complete life style change-and limitation or elimination of sugar is certainly one of them-

Why is this even an issue??? You find sugar in everything, 2/3 of Americans are overweight, they eat sugar with sugar. My kids would drink soda every minute of the day and why? because it is full with nothing but sugar.

You need to change over to natural or organic foods and give your body the best chance to survive.

Joe

I too believe that sugar (glucose) feeds the cells. According to a study I read when I was being treated for cancer that cancer cells are able to absorb the glucose directly from your system, where normal cells can not easily do that. That is why cancer grows so fast. Now for the kicker:

When you drink a Soda, you get Sugar(which feeds the cancer) and Phosphoric acid, which we all know makes your more acidic. SO you are creating this wonderful environment for cancer to grow, just by drinking a lot of soda. (the clear soda's are acidic too folks)

I got thru the cancer and treatment thanks to the Good Lord and my family. My taste buds can not taste sweet any longer, so soda tastes terrible....I am actually fortunate for that. By the way...Vitamin C is very bad for cancer patients. Take in very very limited quantities- cancer cells absolutely love it!

I lived through this for a reason. Maybe just for this info to be passed along....May you all be blessed.

 Allen

On 2/7/2008 struggling wrote:

Thanks for all your input guys...I really appreciate it!! Can anyone recommend a "diet", something to follow (it's gotta be written down somewhere) of a healhier choices to help in the fight. If I were the one preparing my fathers meals every day it wouldn't be such a big deal but I am not so I need something to say "here this is what we need to be doing" Please! Something! Anything! Book titles, personal plans, web sites ANYTHING!!!!

I need some sort of documentation to bring to my dad and his girlfriend and say this is what is working for other people fighting the same fight we are and doing really well with it, what do we have to lose!?!?!"

Renee

Hi,

I also believe that sugar feeds cancer.  Unfortunately, my mother who has stage four lung cancer, diabetes, and is now home with hospice, will only eat sugary foods.  She has been living on Boost and Ensure which are loaded with corn syrup.  Other foods don't taste right any more.  My battle has been these foods or no food at all.  She has lost a lot of weight.  Lately, I've been able to introduce some other foods-- cereal, and some soups and puddings, but she almost always prefers the sweeter versions.  Yesterday she asked for grapes, but then couldn't eat them.  I've had to let her eat whatever she can, even though I wish I could steer her towards other foods.

Yes indeed, sugar does feed cancer - virtually every kind of sugar, though none are worse than common refined sugar. And that includes items like bleached white bread which the body easily converts to sugar.  No doubt refined sugar and bleached white bread are about as unhealthy of food items as you can find - in fact, the World Health Organization has identified refined sugar as the number one cause of health problems in the world.

As someone who has researched cancer and natural alternativess it is amazing to me to see just how little our system of medical education has done to educate doctors about what causes cancer and helps it grow or what prevents it and helps beat it.  Not very long ago, it was not uncommon for oncologist offices to have a bowl of CANDY sitting out in the reception area!

Of course, there is no profit in prescribing healthy diets and lifestyle choices or inexpensive natural supplements and alternative therapies, and do our doctors have not been taught much about them - although there is an ecouraging trend in recent years to better educate our doctors about such things.

For a good look at that we know, or feel pretty sure we know, about cancer, take at look at the article "Modern Medicine versus Nature in Treating Cancer"

http://www.tbyil.com/MMvsNature.htm