Cancer love simple foods. There’s a big buzz on what you should eat or not to eat to fight cancer. Sometimes, this gets confusing. Sugar is a simple food. People believe that sugar feed cancer. However, the truth is cancer research doesn’t show any direct link. Sugar doesn’t make cancer replicate faster. Your cancer mass doesn’t grow any bigger with high intake of sugary food on occasional time.

Sugar everyday is bad

While a high sugar diet doesn’t cause cancer directly, a diet rich in sugar, processed and refined or fast foods increase your cancer risk. Nevertheless, the relationship of sugar and cancer is an indirect link. When you consume huge amounts of sugary and simple carbohydrate foods your insulin blood levels rise. As a result, your cells gradually become insulin resistant. Sugar can’t be transported into your cells for energy and your blood sugar levels rise. Therein is the danger.

High level blood insulin increase cancer growth

Cancer research showed that high sugar levels affect breast and pancreatic cancer stimulate insulin production. Insulin resistant cells cause elevated blood sugar levels and insulin affect the growth of breast cancer and pancreatic cancer cells. There is a vicious cycle here, which both phenomenon stimulate each other. More studies are needed to determine if this indirect link with sugar affects other cancer types.

Sugar lifestyle

Occasional intake of sugary foods may be fine. But if it is habitual you’d be inclined to decrease the amount of functional foods in your diet. Functional foods, as you may know, are foods that protect you from cancer.

Where do you find sugar

They’re in the candies, chocolate bars, sodas or soft drinks and cocktail juices you munch and sip as snacks. You’ll find it in that fudge cake you just gobbled for dessert. They’re loaded in high fructose foods like cookies and corn syrup. White bread, rice or potatoes ( fries or chips) contain more sugar than ice cream. These foods have very high glycemic index (GI), meaning they are easily converted into sugar.

Bottom line

Manage sugars well. You need only 5g of sugar in a your blood. The equivalent of a sugar bag for your tea or coffee. Carbohydrate rich foods once a week, would be bad for you. This wouldn’t hurt your chances against cancer. Choose low GI foods. Learn how to identify candy food by reading the ingredient labels carefully. If sugar, fructose and glucose are included in the first three ingredients – beware!