Lifestyle and Your Health

Cancer Researcher Issues Stark Warning

 Dr. Lewis Cantley, a cancer researcher believes a high-sugar diet is very dangerous—in particular to children. First, it’s important to know that the factor that links obesity, diabetes, and cancer is insulin and leptin resistance. Full-blown type 2 diabetes, is now becoming increasingly prevalent in children and teens—something that was virtually unheard of 50 years ago. As Dr. Cantley says, type 2 diabetes is referred to as “late onset diabetes” for the precise reason that it typically didn’t strike until you were in your 60s.

If diabetes at 60 is evidence of a lifetime of higher-than-ideal sugar consumption, then the fact that teenagers are now developing type 2 diabetes tells us that the amount of sugar in the average diet, starting from infancy, is exceptionally high—so high that the ramifications become evident several decades sooner than before! This in turn exponentially increases the child’s risk of developing cancer at some point in his or her life. Dr. Cantley warns:

“This correlation of earlier and earlier type 2 diabetes, that means you now have 20, 30, 40 years of high insulin levels, which could potentially drive the growth of tumors. It really does make us very worried that advances we’re making in treating cancer is going to be completely offset by this dramatic increase in cancers that are associated with diabetes and obesity... The more I learn about it, the more compulsive I become about avoiding sugar.”

Think about it... Sugar used to be available to our ancestors only as fruit or honey—and then only for a few months of the year—compared to today, when fructose (primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is added to virtually all processed foods and drinks; even items you normally would not think of as being high in sugar. Tragically, many infant formulas even contain more than 50 percent sugar! This, I believe, gets your child hooked on sweets virtually from day one, and sets the wheels in motion for metabolic dysfunction.

If you received your fructose only from vegetables and fruits (where it originates) as most people did a century ago, you'd consume about 15 grams per day. Today, the average is 73 grams per day, which is nearly 500 percent higher a dose and your body simply can't tolerate that type of biochemical abuse. Furthermore, in vegetables and fruits, the fructose is mixed in with fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all of which help moderate the negative metabolic effects.

 Your Lifestyle Will Make or Break Your Health
Unfortunately, processed foods are HUGE business with great profit margins—maximized by designing foods with addictive qualities, through the use of salt, sugar, fat and other secret, proprietary flavor formulas. The food industry as a whole has NO incentive whatsoever to switch to selling and marketing whole foods—unless the market absolutely demands it.

If you want to protect your health, and the health of your family, my most urgent recommendation is to do just that—replace the processed foods with homemade meals, made from scratch using whole ingredients.

To safely and effectively reverse insulin and leptin resistance, you need to:

Avoid, sugar, fructose, grains, and processed foods

Eat a healthful diet of whole foods, ideally organic, and replace the grain carbs with: Large amounts of vegetables, low-to-moderate amount of high quality protein (think organically raised, pastured animals), as much highly quality healthful fat as you can. Good sources include coconut oil, avocados, butter, nuts, and animal fats. Also take a high-quality source of animal-based omega-3 fat, such as krill oil.

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