Originally Posted by
Valiant Woman
I stopped drinking soda years ago, but when I want one, I drink Vernor's ginger ale. Or if I can't get that, Sprite. But that's only a couple of times a year. I sometimes use organic raw honey in my tea, but never sugar.
A close friend died of cancer the day before Thanksgiving. She told me a few months before she passed that "sugar loves cancer, or vice versa." I'd never heard that before. She told me the medical professionals confirm it and that a friend was led to tell her that...
If you do a forum search on the word ketogenic you will find several threads that touch on how a no carb diet kills cancer cells. Here's another article on it:
...How Does Ketogenic Diet Starve Cancer Cells?
Dr. D'Agostino explains how the ketogenic diet can have such a dramatic (and rapid) effect on cancer. All of your body's cells are fueled by glucose. This includes cancer cells. However, cancer cells have one built-in fatal flaw – they do not have the metabolic flexibility of your regular cells and
cannot adapt to use ketone bodies for fuel as all your other cells
can.
So, when you alter your diet and become what's known as "fat-adapted," your body starts using fat for fuel rather than carbs. When you switch out the carbs for healthy fats, you starve the cancer out, as you're no longer supplying the necessary fuel – glucose – for their growth. As D'Agostino explains: