Sugar & Cancer - Shorts - connection between high blood sugar and tumor growth

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June, 2002 by Jule Klotter

An article posted on The Alternative Research Foundation website (http://cat007.com) says that high blood sugar levels promote tumor growth. The article refers to the work of the 1931 German Nobel laureate Otto Warburg, PhD. Dr. Warburg discovered that "malignant tumors frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic glycolysis -- a process whereby glucose is used as a fuel by cancer cells with lactic acid as an anaerobic byproduct -- compared to normal tissues." The buildup of lactic acid results in a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues and in overall physical fatigue. In addition to lactic acid buildup, anaerobic glycolysis releases only about 5% of the energy in food and stored calories, which also contributes to fatigue. Eventually, the patient becomes malnourished and may begin to waste away.

The article suggests controlling blood glucose sugar levels in order to "help starve the cancer and bolster the immune system." It also suggests that mannoheptulose, a purified avocado extract, may help. Researchers at Britain's Oxford University Department of Biochemistry found that mannoheptulose inhibits tumor cell glucose uptake and also inhibits glucokinase, the enzyme used in glycolysis. In laboratory tests, mannoheptulose inhibited growth in cultured tumor cells as well as reducing tumor size in animal subjects.

The Alternative Research Foundation. Sugar and Cancer. http://cat007.com