Is there such thing as too much non refined/ processed sugar? (sugar from fruits)

Spike in insulin most harmful
Here's a tidbit of knowledge for the conversation of sugar. Don't know where I've heard this but I've heard it more than once.

Yes, cancer loves sugar and we should limit intake. But we should also be cognizant of WHEN we consume sugar. Spikes of insulin will encourage cancer more than sugar consumed after or with other foods. I guess if we eat sugary foods they should not be on empty stomach.

I'm interested to learn more about this as well as original question.

Mary Ann

Natural Sugar
Hello,

I have been advised by nutritionists to stick to a plant based low GI diet as insulin peaks do promote cancer growth. Low GI diets contain foods which release sugar into the blood stream slowly. Some tips were to include protein when eating anything like fruit - so a small portion of fruit with a handful of nuts or seeds to balance the blood sugars. I have been told to avoid having too many carbs - just a tablespoon of brown rice, just one slice of wholemeal bread and to fill up on vegetables and beans. I do eat eggs and oily fish.

I snack on oat cakes with nut or seed butter, goji berries and nuts.

Agave nectar has now been so over processed it is no longer considered a good sugar substitute. Currently Xylitol Crystals - derived from birch bark - are considered ok for an occasional treat and can be used to make sweet treats. However, it is an occasonal treat and I have just learned (with difficulty!) to alter my taste and get over my sugar cravings. After a few months of perserverence I am fine without sugar and do not even miss it.

Cler

this is what was posted by
this is what was posted by one of the tireless researchers at Inspire.com ovarian cancer forum. After I read this, I decided to limit fruits to only 1 serving a day, strawberries that have known anti cancer nutrients. Nothing else seems to worth the benefit.

The exception is lemon. Lemons has powerful anti cancer properties and have VERY LOW fructose. Hence, I treat lemons as vegetables from the nutritional profile point of view. I eat organic whole lemons WITH PEELS - two small ones blenderized into my daily green drinks.

If you must eat fruits, google the fructose content. Some fruits have much higher fructose contents than others. Recommendation I have seen is to limit daily total consumption of fructose to 15 grams. Eat a couple of high fructose fruits, you are already there, and then most of the anti cancer vegetables all contain small amount of fructose. that's why I eat only 1 serving of fruit a day.


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38528161/ns/health-cancer/

"Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. ... 'They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth.' ... Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. 'Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,' Heaney's team wrote."

Cancer Research, Fructose Induces Transketolase Flux to Promote Pancreatic Cancer Growth

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/70/15/6368.short?rss=1

"Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different; in comparison with glucose, fructose induces thiamine-dependent transketolase flux and is preferentially metabolized via the nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathway to synthesize nucleic acids and increase uric acid production"

Cancer Research, Fructose Induces Transketolase Flux to Promote Pancreatic Cancer Growth