OMG, hold everything before you add that sugar to your coffee - scary headline warning how sugar causes cancer (capitalisation added for emphasis in the story)...until you actually read the research they were reporting on which geek me did to find it has nothing at all to do with sugar causing cancer. The research wasnt about sugar (sucrose) but about increased metabolism of glucose (which is a sugar and also known as blood sugar) by cancer cells. Every form of carbohydrate you eat will cause a rise in your blood sugar (starch, lactose from milk, sucrose and so on) - even protein will cause a rise in blood sugar. Even if you starve yourself, youll still have glucose in your blood - if you didnt, you would be dead. Nowhere in the paper did it talk about sucrose, it was all about glucose metabolism. Cancer cells are known to be more metabolically active and thats why they use more glucose as a fuel and its also how PET scanning works to image tumours as it uses a radiolabelled form of glucose. The research was about targeting pathways of glucose metabolism in cancer cells as a treatment option There are lots of reasons for eating less sugar, but it is not a cause of cancer - its a glucose and fructose molecule joined together which are split apart before you absorb them - making the glucose indistinguishable from that which came from the starch in corn and the fructose that came from an apple.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:41:54 +0000
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