Wed, Jul-26-17, 15:57
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Posts: 220
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Plan: Atkins/LCHF
Stats: 209/185/185
BF:reducing
Progress: 100%
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Originally Posted by Rosebud
A new way forward?
Eliminating sugar from your diet won't help you, because you'll be depriving other cells of a valuable fuel source too.
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Yes it will.
I think the burden of proof should be in the opposite direction.
There is no proof that sugar is good for you, especially in cancer, and that until it is shown to be useful "as a valuable/essential food source for non-cancer cells" it should be avoided.
3% of cancer from obesity seems low to me.
The US figures are more like:
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How many cancer cases may be due to obesity?
A population-based study using BMI and cancer incidence data from the GLOBOCAN project estimated that, in 2012 in the United States, about 28,000 new cases of cancer in men (3.5%) and 72,000 in women (9.5%) were due to overweight or obesity (32). The percentage of cases attributed to overweight or obesity varied widely for different cancer types but was as high as 54% for gallbladder cancer in women and 44% for esophageal adenocarcinoma in men.
A 2016 study summarizing worldwide estimates of the fractions of different cancers attributable to overweight/obesity reported that, compared with other countries, the United States had the highest fractions attributable to overweight/obesity for colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and postmenopausal breast cancer (33).
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source - https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer...sity-fact-sheet
The big difference between men and women is largely due to the significant effect obesity has on breast cancer and how common breast cancer is in post-menopausal women.
A ketogenic diet needs to be studied in many different cancers as it could be helpful for many reasons.
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