Sugar And Tumors????

I read somewhere that "sugar feeds tumors". Is this true?

I have been studying cancer and alternative cures for 7 months since my husband was diagnosed with State 4 inoperable esophageal cancer. YES, it does feed cancer. You need to read Patrick Quillin's book "Beating Cancer with Nutrition." If you have cancer, you need to cut out the white sugar. Change your diet and do a lot of raw vegetables - the nutrients can get to the blood stream within a half hour. Sugar suppressed the immune system and causes you to be acidic (a condition that cancer thrives in.) Also meat and dairy cause a body to be acidic. We gave us all milk, dairy, meat, sugar, and white flour. It doesn't leave you a lot of choices for food but it's better than the alternative! Start reading and give up that sugar! Judy T.

Yes, I agree. Beating Cancer with Nutrition is an excellent source for overall diet recommendations. He even gives a listing of all the foods from Best to Worst that I have copied and keep on my refrigerator. A dear friend sent me this book from Amazon.com when I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. I read portions of the book over and over because it is filled with do's and don'ts. And I for one, believe there is nothing not worth giving up to not have to ever go through this again. Not that nutrition is a guarantee, but I believe it makes a big difference.

Also, if anyone out there has had tongue cancer I would be very interested in trading some information on survival and quality of life. It has been 9 months and 4 days since my diagnosis, and almost 9 months since my surgery. I am still getting checkups from my surgeon and ENT, alternating every six weeks.

Glucose (sugar) does feed tumors! Cancer cells live strictly on glucose using glycolysis as their sole form of energy. They have more numbers of insuline receptors,averaging 6-20 times that of normal cells. This is precisely why insuline potentiation therapy and for that matter PET scans even work. If you really dig through your insurance policy looking at specifically which cancers your insurance company will allow PET scans for. You will see there are a few listed as being specifically not glucose dependant and thus PET scans are not accurate at diagnosisng. You can also look up the package insert on the drug given to do a PET scan. Notice the word glucose in it. Hope this helps......