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TOP TEN REASONS TO AVOID SUGAR #10

SUGAR PROMOTES CANCER 

Remember, cancer is not caught like a cold.  We all have 100 to 10,000 cancer cells in our body at any given moment in time.  The way to prevent cancer cells from spreading or getting out of control is to maintain a strong immune system and not fuel them with their #1 choice of food:  SUGAR.

In 1931, German professor Otto Warburg received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his studies showing that cancer cells and tumors generate energy by glycolysis, the non-oxidative breakdown of glucose in the absence of oxygen.  Dr Wartburg hypothesized that cancer cells use sugar as their main source of energy, in contrast with healthy cells , which use oxygen. 

“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes.  But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause.  Summarized in a few worlds the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.” Dr Otto Warburg (Warburg, The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer.)

While medical theorists and pharmaceutical companies have proposed many other causes of cancer since Dr Warburg’s research, his principle that cancer cells switch to glycolysis remains widely accepted today and continues to be utilized in the development of cancer drugs.  However, wouldn’t it make better sense to eliminate the cause of the problem, rather than develop medications to combat the symptoms? 

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Have a SPINE day! 

Dr. A.M. Willcockson
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