How's your diet? Eating a lot of carbohydrates these days? Dr. Krystal thinks that may be causing yourself harm.
So, what makes the critical difference in what wins this silent battle: cancer, or your immune system? This is the question that has occupied much of Dr. Krystal’s career.You're eating toast for breakfast, aren't you? Or a muffin, or maybe cereal. Or a donut. Hash browns? Bad choices, at least in terms of cancer prevention. Bad meal you!
He began by observing that Positron Emission Tomography — PET scans used for tumour and inflammation detection — revealed a particular pattern of deoxyglucose use. Apparently, cancer has an appetite for glucose that is three times that than of other cells; that’s what the PET scan is looking for. This rapid ingestion of glucose leads to the secretion of lactic acid which decreases cellular pH and — here’s the aha! moment — that’s what encourages metastasis. And where does the body get all this glucose? Well, it gets it from the standard Western diet; a diet, it turns out, that’s perfectly designed to kill us all.
Cancer, it turns out, craves carbs. Typically, the maleficent Western diet is made up of over 50% carbohydrates and only 15% protein.Well, maybe this is just some pie-in-the-sky (pun intended) nonsense. But Dr. Krystal's research suggests otherwise.
Dr. Krystal’s team continues to explore the subject of diet-related tumour growth and initiation. The clinical trials with mice, however, suggest that we should all be making massive shifts in what we eat. Almost half the mice on the western diet developed mammary cancers by middle age, whereas none of the mice on the low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet did. Only one of the test mice achieved a normal life span on the standard western diet, with the rest of dying early of cancer-associated deaths. More than 50% of the mice on a low-carbohydrate diet, however, reached or exceeded a normal life span.Step away from the Cocoa Krispies and read the rest of the article here.
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Of course red meat consumption is linked (though not causally that I know of) to cancer too, and many fruits are high-carb. So what's left? Chicken and celery?
Hmmm...this gives a new twist on the Kreb's Cycle.
[Kreb means crab or cancer in German - cf. our word "crab."]
The best scientific explanation would be that cancer is God's way of punishing us for developing agriculture after our expulsion from the Garden.
So whomever came up with the zodiac was dyslexic.
Son - of - a - bitch. Next, we'll find out great sex causes cancer. Why would God make carbs so very wonderful in the first place. If I could only have one food and one drink besides water for the rest of my life it would be bread and wine.
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche...
While it is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette,[1] there is no record of this phrase ever having been uttered by her. It appears in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire to have some bread to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, in feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he thus recollected the words of a "great princess".
You can't win...
You're eating toast for breakfast, aren't you?
Are you watching me?
Slice of homemade raisin cinnamon bran quick bread microwaved with butter and 3 slices of bacon. Pink grapefruit juice.
:-)
Every year or so we get a new alarming factoid about food that we shouldn't eat. Eggs were verbotten for a while. Now eggs are good. Meat bad unless you are on a Paleo diet or Dr Atkins. Salt too much is bad....too little will kill you too. Butter bad eat margarine. Oh. Wait. Margarine is bad eat butter. They don't know what they are talking about.
Eff it. I eat what I want in moderation. If I want fettuccine alfredo I will have some. Just not every day or in giant quantities.
...cancer is God's way of punishing us for developing agriculture after our expulsion from the Garden.
But wasn't manna from heaven a carbohydrate?
Are you thinking of mannose or mannitol, ricpic?
I just googled mannose and mannitol, which are apparently sugars. Wasn't manna from heaven flakes? Sort of like the flakes that become pablum when mixed with water or milk. Anyway that's what comes to mind when I think manna. A flake. Which by definition is a carb. I loved pablum as a little kid.
Son - of - a - bitch. Next, we'll find out great sex causes cancer.
Ask Michael Douglas about that.
Not all carbs are the same. We all eat way too much grains, pasta, and regular potatoes (which convert quickly and easily into blood sugar and extra fat). We need to focus more on veggies (kale, salad, etc.). Fresh fruit is fine in moderation and way better than processed foods. And meat is good (although I would prefer you stay off the beef).
While too much fat is not good for you, fat is not the prime enemy (especially heart healthy fats like olive oil, etc.)--sugar is and foods that turn into sugar.
Once you get your diet and weight in balance, you can eat moderate amounts of most everything. But the beauty of focusing your diet on veggies and meat is they tend to be self limiting the way carbs are not. And that has to do with how blood sugar levels fluctuate when you are eating carbs.
Evi, you've perfectly described the so-called Paleo diet, except that it's not really a diet, it's a way to eat in a healthful manner.
Damn, I was going to order the linguine w/ clams tonight!
If you have three or four pre-breakfasts will it increase you chances of getting cancer?
Cause that would be a damn shame.
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