Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds

Thanks Laura for the info. I started reading ingredients on labels too. I have to watch for the soy in everything and just found it in my tuna.

I cut out sugar... wanted the coffee every morning along with the other girls in the office but couldn't drink a drop without the flavored creamers... Yikes it's full of fake sugar/cream etc, etc. So I went cold turkey and now drink only green tea and an herbal that sorta tastes like coffee.

It's been suggested somewhere on one of these threads to have dark chocolate - 2 oz every day. I found some almonds with dark chocolate and eat them thinking they're good for me. I've a lot to learn.

Thanks again for the post.

larura- Thanks for this!  It totally makes sense.  After all, they give you that nasty, ridiculously sweet glop to drink before a PET scan.  I think it is because the sugar (I wonder if it is fructose) "lights up" possible cancer.  During the past few years DH and I have completely changed our diet (went on the Sonoma Diet).  It is basically healthy Mediterranean eating, we have never felt better, both lost about 40 pounds. Lots of veggies and fruits, whole grains only, no refined sugars, no white flour, rice or potatoes.  I am convinced that we all need to get back to more unrefined everything to get and stay healthy.  I wonder about Agave nectar (made from cactus).  Dr. Weil recommends it over honey and other sweeteners, says it does not metabolize like refined sugar.

Hey Laura -

Nice photo!  Can I have your necklace?  :-)

Didn't the study compare fructose and glucose and found that fructose was the bad one?  Do you know what the difference is?  Must....have..........sugar......!!!!!!!!!!

E

I moved to the USA 5 years ago from Scotland.. I could not believe how sweet everything is in the USA,  When I read the lables everything contains "high fructose corn syrup"  Even products that are made in both the UK and the USA (Kelloges Rice Krispies for example), its the US one that has this HFCS added.  I try to buy European foods from the supermarket as they dont have this in them..

 sushanna 1,

You might like Hansen's Diet natural soda. It contains no sodium, no cafeine, no

preservatives, no fructose corn syrup. Just triple fitered water, natural flavors, and Splenda.

The Root Beer is so creamy, it tastes like a Root Beer float! Even the non-diet versions

contain only sugar, instead of fructose corn syrup- at only 140 calories per 12 oz.

 I'm right there with you on the baked beans, tho!

Enjoy!

 LAM2

Thanks for the info!  As an 8 year survivor of Stage 4 BC, I need a kick in the butt sometimes to attempt to adhere to a more healthful diet.

And now that my heart ejection fraction is dropping after 7 years of Herceptin, the only thing that I can try to do to help myself is to lose the 30 pounds that I have piled on.

Denise

Hi Carol,

I have a dozen books on cancer and nutrition, and I will check it out.  But I know that nutrition alone will not beat cancer.  I have really restricted my diet and it is about 80% healthful.  But I have always had problems with my weight and have to eat under 1,000 calories a day to lose.

And I know that is not healthy for me now.

Thanks for the info!