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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