Originally Posted by teaser

What it adds to is the growing body of literature that does not separate out the effects of different foods on cancer mortality--which is to say, it teaches us nothing new and is probably a massive waste of money.




The red hasn't been established, and the rest of the sentence is partially true--we need studies to show whether a ketogenic diet will shrink tumours in humans. Back to the quackiness issue--before the effect of diet on various types of cancer in human beings has been established, it's just as quacky to promise that sugar won't promote cancer, as an absolute statement, as it is to promise that it will inhibit it.