[–] EarlPoncho 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
The fact that sugar and obesity are linked to an increased risk of cancer is now becoming well-recognized
it's not sugar, it's the fact that you're a fat fuck
[–] onegin 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Unlike all the other cells in your body, which can burn carbs or fat for fuel, cancer cells have lost that metabolic flexibility and can only thrive if there enough sugar present.
This sounds like a big oversimplification. I'd like to see a source. I am a big fan of cutting sugar but even with ketogenic diets AFAIK it is not possible to live without some circulating glucose. If you're not getting it from diet your body will scavenge it because there are a few systems that can't run on ketones alone.
Paul Jaminet of "Perfect Health Diet" writes a lot about the problems with very low carb-- http://perfecthealthdiet.com/category/zero-carb-dangers/
He advocates some combination of intermittent fasting and ketone promoting foods (coconut oil / MCT oil, ketogenic amino acids leucine and lysine, etc.). With these techniques you can still keep a lot of circulating ketones and get your body keto-adapted without lowering carbs too low.
Here is the article Mercola is supposedly drawing from: https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=780BF4A8-B3D1-13A0-D2514E21EFFB0479
[–] Ruthven 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Certainly an anecdote, but Leila Denmark was a pediatrician who also co-discovered the pertussis vaccine. She related how she had quit consuming sugar age 32 because she believed it was harmful.
Her husband lived well into his nineties and she passed away at 114. She even refused birthday cake at her 100th and 110th birthday parties.
I wonder how much is related to obesity though - how do thin, otherwise healthy people do when consuming larger quantities of sugar.
[–] BeetusCrisco 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Mercola clinging to outdated theories and pushing them as "THE BIG CONSPIRACY COVERUP" as always...
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[–] coldacid 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Without carbohydrates, no cell can survive. That statement from the article has to be one of the stupidest statements of all time.
[–] Super_Cooper ago
I was going to say the same thing. Mercola.com is for the very ignorant and uniformed who have no better means of informing themselves on matters of health.