What hasn't been understood until now is whether this excess sugar
consumption by cancer cells is a symptom of cancer, or if it's a cause of cancer.
Not exact matches
Hormones produced
by the body in response to sugar
consumption also feed
cancer cells.
From a theory dating back to the early 20th century
by Nobel Prize laureate Otto Warburg, it has been believed that, in order to support their growth,
cancer cells needed to increase their glucose
consumption, without using mitochondrial metabolism.
Colon
cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on
by certain enzymes in the
cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation.14 This explains the fact that in industrialized countries, where there are many carcinogens in the diet and where
consumption of vegetable oils and carcinogens is high, some studies have correlated meat - eating with colon
cancer; but in traditional societies, where vegetable oils are absent and the food is free of additives, meat - eating is not associated with
cancer.
Polyunsaturated fats such as corn oil and soybean oil are highly unstable and vulnerable to oxidation — and oxidation, in turn, is linked to
cancer — while the omega - 6 fatty acids that predominate in vegetable oils have been shown to accelerate the growth of tumor
cells.6 As Fallon and Enig explain, 4 excessive
consumption of toxic polyunsaturated oils — not red meat — represents a known mechanism for colon
cancer: «Colon
cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on
by certain enzymes in the
cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis added].