Does sugar actually feed cancer? While a healthy diet is important, you can’t “starve a tumour”. Here's what experts say.
‘There were tumours everywhere in my chest’: She battled blood cancer and built a foundation to help patientsOnce you’re diagnosed with cancer, eliminating sugar doesn’t seem to slow or halt cancer growth in most cases, Shawhan said. “By this point, it is not sugar intake that is driving cancer growth, but the cancer itself.”
Additionally, sugar is essential for most living things, Dr Scherer said. And when it occurs naturally in foods like dairy products, fruits and vegetables, it’s part of a healthy diet, said Natalie Ledesma, an oncology dietitian at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre. For the most part, experts agree that there’s no need to abstain from sugars that appear in whole foods. But Ledesma notes that consuming excess added sugar has been associated with worse outcomes
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