How to cut out sugar? Study links BC to high sucrose diet.

Castigame

Shells,

I second cutting out processed food is the key. Besides BC risk, I prefer butter and salt at home bc I know how much I put in my dishes. I tried to think twice about eating sugary stuff. And avoid any artificial sweeteners. I still love those brown sugar packets.

Anonymous

This might help you... the sugar causes cancer myth is really oversimplified science, but for those who need to lose weight (because lower BMI seems to be a factor in higher rates of survival), cutting out sugar means that calories are cut down, allowing for weight loss.

Check out #4.

http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/03/24/dont-believe-the-hype-10-persistent-cancer-myths-debunked/

Shellsatthebeach

Mimi, I feel so much better cutting process foods out of my diet. Also, I'm more leery about artificial sugar sweeteners than the real stuff. I am trying to cut down on my sugar intake to a few times a week, but will avoid carbs as much as possible. I have never tried the brown sugar packets.

claireinaz, interesting link. I agree that saying sugar is the cause of cancer is way oversimplified.

Susaine

Hi ChiSandy,

Thanks for the grain-fed meat information. I wonder what a great content you provided.

I just try to follow you but we are facing problem in finding naturally grown animals in our place. We came across animals for meat which are wild.

But whatever may be reason I just wanted to stop eating grain fed meats sold in the markets.

amarantha

Cutting out sugar means cutting out simple sugars, like white starches, potatoes, bread, rice, etc, and non-fat milk, anything that risks spiking blood sugar, and thereby insulin, which according to Jason Fung, author of the Obesity Code, is the cause of Type 2 diabetes, aka Insulin Resistance, both of which are high risk factors for Breast Cancer. I spent a year cutting out all those kinds of foods, followed a pretty strict low carb diet just after finishing treatment for breast cancer in May 2013 and lost about 60 pounds from 230 to 170 . I felt fantastic, and was able to do lots more excercise, and look much prettier. The diet stopped working after a while, I realised I had to also do intermittent fasting. But after two years, I stopped restricting carbs and slowly got back to some of my old habits, at which point my cancer returned ! I have not had the courage to go back on the strict low carb diet, but I am quite sure it would help a little bit at least. The problem is that when you are on treatment for Breast cancer, sometimes a potato is the only thing you can get down. Other priorities come into being, like simply finding something to eat at all, and enjoying your life, what's left of it.

amarantha

I have been following Jason Fung's blog for years. He is delving into preventing or curing cancer by autophagy now, this is not his field, and may be a non-starter, but at least he is asking the questions. Sometimes he explores an idea, and reverses his opinion. He's been back and forth on the subject of the low carb diet. He argues that carbs are not the only thing which spike insulin, red meat can do it too, and other things, and that the glycemic index indicates which carbs spike sugar, but the things which spike insulin do not always follow the glycemic index as expected. I would read everything of his I could get my hands on. https://idmprogram.com/blog/

Susaine

Natural food that contain sugar works fine. For example fruits, carrots etc.

But if sugar is processed industrially then it is refined sugar. Problem starts if we are using these sugar. As our liver cannot synthesis these foods naturally.

Amelia01

I’m starting to read everything by Valter Longo (he supports fasting) it is all related to sugar in the end.

I’m gearing up to fast before chemo. Not sure how my 105lb frame will handle it.

I actually do eat even though I lost 10 lbs right after dx.

Looking back my diet had a lot of sugar in it (wine, dairy, carbs). I think I’m malnourished, not thin.

Raw carrots have low glycemic index, cooked carrots high... who knew?

mysunshine48

Hi! Just got on and one of my topics is sugar. Amelia01, I would not fast before chemo. You are small already and you will lose weight during chemo. Your appetite will change and you will not even feel like eating... at least that happened to me and a lot of others. I now eat some foods with sugar.....a muffin or a cookie, in moderation. I do believe the studies that say sugar is not good for BC, but, then, sugar is not good for anyone! Just be smart! Eat healthy....lots of fruits and vegetables. I do not eat red meat and only Wild fish and free range, non antibiotic chicken. I try to find organic.

During chemo, eat carbs, like pasta, mashed potatoes and good solid food. Remember, you will be having all these chemicals going through your body and it is all washed out fast anyway, so EAT all you can because you just automatically lose weight. You need the calories! Don't fast! You will just be hurting your body more.

I will pray for you and wish you well.

Wench5312

My niece went through a bad battle with breast cancer. She uses dates for her sweetners in juice and smoothes.

iulia

My mother in law has stage IV BC and she has gone low carb but not keto. She doesn't consume fruits that have high concentrations of sugar anymore but she does consume some berries. She doesn't eat potatoes, rice, carby bread/pasta anymore but she consumes a little starch from legumes and squashes such as kabocha or pumpkin or butternut squash sometimes. We buy low carb bread/pasta/flour and I bake lowcarb/keto desserts that I sweeten with erythritol/alluluse/monkfruit. These sweeteners have 0-1 GI, are truly low calorie, and have no impact on the blood sugar. They are safe.

Yogatyme

I am not strict about no sugar, but I am very mindful of amount, frequency of sugar and carbs and have followed this for the past 3 years. I have lost 25 lbs without feeling deprived and the biggest bonus is that I don’t really have much taste for cookies, candy, pie, cakes, coffeecake, etc. However, I have to refuse to make coconut cake bc I will eat that all day long!!