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Have you ever heard of malignant heart cancer? Neither have I. And you probably never will.
Hypothesis – lack of sugar.
While the heart muscle can use sugar as fuel, many experts claim that the hearts preferred source of fuel is saturated fat and ketone bodies.
In fact, Richard Veech MD has shown that the heart works 28 percent more efficiently using ketones as a fuel than it does using glucose. Therefore, more than likely the experts are right that fat is the 'gas' of the heart.
Cancer needs sugar to survive. No sugar, no cancer. Your liver is the creator of glucose (sugar) and liver cancer is one of the worst forms of cancer you can get. You pretty much don't get better once you have liver cancer.
I tried to help my mother who died of lung cancer a few months ago to adopt a no sugar diet. She didn't or wouldn't. Same for my father who died of liver cancer.
I've noticed that people with cancer eat a lot of sugar -or drink it.
And when you are in the hospital taking chemo to treat your cancer, you tend to lose your appetite. And what does the hospital give you to eat since you do need to eat? They give you a drink called Nutrament. The primary ingredients in Nutrament are carbohydrate and sugar to the tune of 52 grams and 49 grams respectively.
Seems to me the thing to do to help combat cancer is to remove sugar (carbs) from the diet. Eskimo's never got cancer. And they never ate sugar. A coincidence? Maybe, maybe…
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Hey Fred,
Glad to hear this. I am a bladder cancer survivor and am expecting the Paleo foods, low in sugar, to provide some protection. This goes for the kids too since I would imagine a large part of susceptibility to cancer would be inherited. Great post.
Hi Fred,
I think you’re spot on that people with cancer should not eat sugar and carbs because the cancer cells feed on glucose. A dear friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with cancer and I’ve been helping her research things and she’s going low carb to see if it will help. Unfortunately the liver will make glucose for the cancer via gluconeogenisis from proteins which is why cancer patients waste away
But heart cancer – I’ve heard of it. In a episode of House. But here is an entry for it on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_cancer It is extremely rare.
all the best,
Anne
Yes, Catharine of Aragon (Henry VIII’s first wife) died of a melanotic sarcoma on the heart (source: Antonia Fraser’s ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’).
Fred, sorry to hear about your mom.
Both of my parents would likely have benefited from a sugar/starch free diet. My mom died of colon cancer in ‘99, my dad’s last years were made difficult by Parkinsons. I dont think it would have been a cure, but in both cases, it almost certainly would have helped. I really wish I had known this at the time, although it’s likely they wouldn’t have believed me.
It’s an outrage, given the information available now, that the medical establishment isn’t blasting this information from the rooftops.
Fred,
Check out these articles which seem to support your theory.
(www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/4/5/1).
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/jyclon/lowcarb.med/topic8.html.
Doug
I’m sorry about what happened with your parents. The best thing to do I guess to prevent us from diseases is to balance our food intake, exercise more and live happy life.
Interesting information but how common is cancer of heart now?
Nice post about Heart cancer and I want to know some side effects of treatment against cancer