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Why Sugar Increases Fat, Diabetes II & Cancer
By admin | August 17, 2010
A common mis-perception is fat consumption is what makes you fat. The real driver of fat accumulation is usually sugar. Why?
Sugar contains glucose which is immediate fuel for your body. The problem is glucose cannot be readily stored. Only a small amount can be stored as readily available energy. It must be immediately used. The vast majority of glucose is turned into long chain fatty acids, known as triglycerides. (These also propel atherosclerosis and heart disease.)
Triglycerides can be converted into energy with proper fat hormones and enzymes. Again this energy must be used immediately. There is a limit to how much immediate energy can be stored so the fatty acid triglycerides convert into fat. These fats are stored in fat beds of you body.
People suffering from diabetes II have very high levels of glucose and resultant triglycerides. As a result of this these diabetics will gain substantial belly fat in spite of previously being skinny. Excess abdominal fat becomes a marker for the diabetic profile.
A second disease propelled by sugar is cancer. Cancer has a totally different metabolism. Cancer absolutely needs extra glucose (blood sugar) and no oxygen…more about that later. Sugar to cancer is like an afterburner on a jet plane.
Cancer cells have an 800% increased rate of metabolism. This greedy consumption of glucose produces huge amounts of lactic acid. This is another problem with cancer metabolism. It causes an unhealthy acid condition for most cells. The acidic ph of most environments is bad for everything from aquatic insects to humans.
A German Nobel prize researcher Dr. Otto Warburg said: “Cancer has only one primary cause. It is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body’s cells by an anaerobic (no oxygen) cell respiration”. Normal cells need oxygen but cancer cells are killed by oxygen and they produce acidic conditions in your body.
When the body’s ph is too acidic, immunity breaks down. Free radicals cause oxidative damage that weakens and makes cells sick. Your health resistance is lowered and you become susceptible to infections, sickness, colds and CANCER.
This abnormal cell metabolism not only makes a sick environment for normal cells but it also rapidly gobbles up glucose and, when depleted, ultimately attacks proteins of the body. It is estimated that 40% of cancer patients die from malnutrition.
Gluconogenesis is the name for the body’s process of converting amino acids (protein) into fuel in the form of glucose. This takes place when the supply of sugar (glucose) is inadequate. This is a major cause of the wasting away process found in terminal cancer or starving humans. Pure sugar is first used, then more complex carbohydrates and fats are used and finally muscle tissue is consumed. Toxic wastes and lactic acid are produced.
Indeed when not enough sugar (glucose) is available the cancer cannibalizes the proteins of your body. It takes much longer to break down the protein but eventually the body does convert protein into energy. Frequently the end stages of cancer are a wasting away and death from malnutrition., due to consumption of muscle proteins. Weight loss and emaciation is due to muscle consumption. Various studies validate the theory that cancer is fueled by sugar.
One study compared the cancer rate of rats fed sugar to those with starches or more complex carbohydrates. The rats on the sugar diet had significantly more cancers.
In another study on mice, 68 of them were injected with breast cancer cells. Three groups were tested, one with high levels of glucose, one with medium levels of glucose and one with low levels of glucose. After 70 days only 33% of the high sugar consumers survived. Those on medium or normal diet survived 66% of the time. In the case of the low sugar consumers only 1 out of 20 developed cancer.
Tests on animals cannot be relied upon to predict exactly what will happen with humans. However, a 4 year study done in the Netherlands validates this theory that sugar fuels cancer in humans. It tracked the status of cancer of the biliary tract on 111 cancer patients. The control base was 480 patients. The high intake of sugar doubled the incidence of those who developed cancer.
Another worldwide study involving 21 modern countries, from all parts of the world, found that sugar consumption was a strong risk factor for breast cancer.
Sugar fuels cancer and produces unhealthy toxins. Sugar also depresses the immune system by its influence on neutrophil leukocytes. (White blood cells) The phagocytic index (white blood cell killing ability) decreases with consumption of sugar.
It is impossible to eliminate all sugar from you diet and not even desirable. However, we consume far too much sugar. Various statistics and reports list the annual per person consumption of sugar in America is 139 pounds to 159 pounds. We need to limit this whenever we can. Soda and prepared drinks are the biggest sources and virtually all prepared and packaged foods also add sugar…Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
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