Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds and some interesting studies regarding cancer and pH

Here's the link on fructose causing cancer cells to go wild. What? Only one. Yes, only one. We're lucky to get one.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/02/cancer-fructose-idAFN0210830520100802

If you have a mother who has cancer with only a 1% chance of survival, there's nowhere else to go but way out of the box. There you can run across some pretty nutty things, but inside the box is chemo, radiation, and arrogance. Then hospice. Thankfully, I was out of the vegan box before she was diagnosed.

In the course of reading a lot of holistic health books, blogs, and forums to find something to help my mother, sugar came up a lot.

"Sugar feeds cancer" I saw it everywhere.

Now, what the hell do you eat for fun? Freeze some berries and bananas (just not 30 of them!) and blend. Add some coconut meat or an avocado and lemon juice. That's one idea. You can get very clever, just don't juice your fruit. Eat the fruit blended so you still have the fiber to slow down the impact on your blood sugar.

Here's an alternative health web site and excerpt:
http://www.nutritioncancer.com/sugarfeedscancer.html

SLOW CANCER GROWTH BY LOWERING BLOOD AND GUT GLUCOSE

(This is old, it's fructose not glucose -- see the Krebs cycle section on the Sugar: The Bitter Truth video on YouTube).

"Cancer cells demonstrate a 3 to 5 fold increase in glucose uptake compared to healthy cells."
Demetrakopoulos, GE, Cancer Research, vol.42, p.756S, Feb.1982

“Sugar is the most hazardous foodstuff in the American diet.”
Linus Pauling, PhD, twice Nobel laureate

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Cancer cells feed almost exclusively on sugar. You can slow tumor growth by:
> eating a diet that lowers blood and gut sugar
> exercise to burn up any extra glucose in the blood
> taking supplements such as chromium, CLA, and gymnema
> using medications, if necessary, for better control of diabetes

A moth is attracted to bright light, which can be its own demise if the bright light is a flame. Americans consume 140 pounds of refined sugar per year, mostly in the form of sucrose (white sugar) and corn syrup. Our incidence of obesity, diabetes, and many cancers has escalated parallel to our rise in sugar intake. We consume 15 billion gallons of soft drinks, 2.7 billion Krispy Cremes, and 500 million Twinkies per year. Our appetite for sugar is like a hummingbird sucking on sweet food all day long.

Sugar Feeds Cancer: A simple saying for something more complex.
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sugar.htm

German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., the 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells.

The gist of his Nobel thesis was this: malignant tumors frequently exhibit an increase in "anaerobic glycolysis" - a process whereby glucose is used by cancer cells as a fuel with lactic acid as an anaerobic by-product - compared to normal tissues.(1)

The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from the cancer cells is then transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate creates a lower, more acidic PH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid build-up.(2,3) Therefore, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic PH.(4)

Cancer and Alkaline pH studies

Bicarbonate Increases Tumor pH and Inhibits Spontaneous Metastases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276390

Acid pH in Tumors and Its Potential for Therapeutic Exploitation
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/49/16/4373

Tumor pH controls the in vivo efficacy of weak acid and base chemotherapeutics
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/5/5/1275.abstract

Recent progress in tumor pH targeting nanotechnology.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18571265

Sodium Bicarbonate Appears To Slow Progression Of Chronic Kidney Disease
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/157902.php

"Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cancer are connected in a number of ways in both directions: cancer can cause CKD either directly or indirectly through the adverse effects of therapies; CKD may, conversely, be a risk factor for cancer; and both may be associated because they share common risk factors, often"

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