Sweets and cancer

Funny you should ask! I was going to post the article I read online the other day about the death of the actor James VerBeek.
Doctors at Sloan Kettering are seeing very high incidences of stage 3 and 4 colon cancers in young people - in their 40’s.
They interviewed them about their diets and this is what they came up with: EVEN ONE sugary 12 oz drink, or a piece of candy (I think probably dessert also) DAILY will raise your chances of colon cancer to the moon!
Personally, I think it’s BS and the number of people in the study was under 300 I believe…I mean, a freakin cookie or a single Coke every day and your gonna die from it? Gimme a break!!
I personally have relatives who lived into their 90’s and they ate sweets like crazy; I’m not recommending it, nor do I follow it because excess sugar can lead to many metabolic problems. But there has got to be more to this cancer spike than just a small amount of sugar…
Phil

Funny you should ask! I was going to post the article I read online the other day about the death of the actor James VerBeek.
Doctors at Sloan Kettering are seeing very high incidences of stage 3 and 4 colon cancers in young people - in their 40’s.
They interviewed them about their diets and this is what they came up with: EVEN ONE sugary 12 oz drink, or a piece of candy (I think probably dessert also) DAILY will raise your chances of colon cancer to the moon!
Personally, I think it’s BS and the number of people in the study was under 300 I believe…I mean, a freakin cookie or a single Coke every day and your gonna die from it? Gimme a break!!
I personally have relatives who lived into their 90’s and they ate sweets like crazy; I’m not recommending it, nor do I follow it because excess sugar can lead to many metabolic problems. But there has got to be more to this cancer spike than just a small amount of sugar…
Phil

Where do you get that chocolate at? I love chocolate and the ingredients sound good.

@northoftheborder "So it's another example of people getting one single factoid and running with it without understanding the system complexities."

I agree. There are many reasons to be careful of sugar intake, but dietary impact on cancer is anecdotal and often very small studies that people will treat like they are massive million-person studies.

I believe it's very easy to grasp at every single thing to blame cancer on, and then every single thing to try to prevent its return. If someone had a study that said if you stop drinking tap water then your chance of remission goes down by 1%, people would do it.

There's nothing wrong with believing these things, truly, because I think the power of the mind is enormous and can have an impact on our health and healing. I just think getting on a soapbox about such things as if God himself bestowed the knowledge upon you and instructed you to convert all the peoples is going a bit far.

Yeah you go to the Dr forva checkup and just so happens your sugar is a "little high" bam you are immediately labeled a diabetic and they put you on medicine

@asolidrock

Well yes - if your sugar is high you are diabetic ... And if you do not control your sugar you might loose your sight and limbs. Sometimes meds are absolutely necessary.

@asolidrock

Well yes - if your sugar is high you are diabetic ... And if you do not control your sugar you might loose your sight and limbs. Sometimes meds are absolutely necessary.

I want to add to my comment about a person's DNA etc. I think we should do the best to take care of our body's if you know I mean although it's hard to do with all the food places putting good healthy food at the check out counter. I'm being funny. I hope I didn't offend anyone.