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Old Thu, Jan-26-06, 21:47
TBoneMitch TBoneMitch is offline
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Dodger,

if the liver can only produce 200g of carbs a day, that is still well under what the average american eats...

So theoritically, a keto diet would reduce glucose availability to tumours.

That idea has been explored in a few clinical trials, with some encouraging success:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...9&dopt=Citation

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/1/42

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ar...i?artid=1276814
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