Cancer diet: Can you ’STARVE’ the disease by cutting out sugar and carbs? [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

Cancer diet: Can you ’STARVE’ the disease by cutting out sugar and carbs? [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

There is nothing you can eat which will cure or prevent cancer, but many scientists have claimed that eating or not eating certain foods can reduce the risk of the disease. 

Some research has suggested fruit and vegetables can reduce the risk of some cancers, and that acrylamide – which is produced from cooking starchy foods at high temperatures – artificial sweeteners and vitamin and mineral supplements are linked to cancer. 

Other studies have even shown a weak link between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer in men. 

Eating too much fatty and sugary food has also been linked to the disease. 

But while fatty and sugary foods aren’t good for anyone, experts have suggested how taking the wrong advice about these cancer diets can have disastrous effects. 

The idea that cancer thrives off sugar and that a patient can “starve” their cancer by cutting all sugars and carbohydrates is an “oversimplification for a complex disease that behaves differently from patient to patient,” The Guardian reports. 

“Unnecessary diet restrictions of food groups are not recommended during cancer treatment,” oncology dietician Fiona Roulston told the paper. 

“The negative consequences include accelerating muscle loss. 

“This leads to reduced ability to tolerate treatment, inadequate micronutrient intake (particularly calcium, which may compound bone mineral density issues with some types of chemotherapy), lack of energy, low mood and fatigue.” 

While many studies have been conducted looking at the association between healthy diets and cancer, Cancer Research UK says current evidence is not good enough to say for definite whether there is a link. 

Oncology dietitian Ruth Kilcawley added: “There is a huge manipulation of people’s emotions going on when someone tries a fad diet, hoping against hope it will cure them, and then subsequently fails because it is restrictive, unpalatable, or the patient is simply too ill. 

“They risk blaming their own failure in keeping to the diet on any profession of disease, which is excessively cruel of those promoting diets without sufficient evidence that the diet, if kept to, would be effective. 

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[bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]Cancer diet: Can you ’STARVE’ the disease by cutting out sugar and carbs?