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Article: Why cancer cells are addicted to sugar ... and what you can do about it.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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You've probably heard that sugar feeds cancer cells. This is why knowledgeable doctors tell their cancer patients to eat a sugar-free or low-sugar diet. It also explains why so many people with cancer crave sweets. You see, like all living things, cancer cells want to stay alive, and eating sugar helps them do just that. But we're finding out that sugar does much more than feed tumors. There's another reason why cancer cells are addicted to sugar.
Sugar keeps cancer cells alive. I've shown you in the past how sugar feeds cancer cells. But it does more than that. Glucose--the "safe" form of sugar found in most fruits and tomato products--also affects the ...