Is Sugar Toxic??

We all know sugar is not good for us...but one man is now bringing evidence that sugar is a toxic substance that is responsible for many behavioral and physical diseases. Obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and many cancers are listed among the problems with consuming too much sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

From the article about sugar consumption and its effect on cancer cells:

"As it was explained to me by Craig Thompson, who has done much of this research and is now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the cells of many human cancers come to depend on insulin to provide the fuel (blood sugar) and materials they need to grow and multiply. Insulin and insulin-like growth factor (and related growth factors) also provide the signal, in effect, to do it. The more insulin, the better they do. Some cancers develop mutations that serve the purpose of increasing the influence of insulin on the cell; others take advantage of the elevated insulin levels that are common to metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Some do both. Thompson believes that many pre-cancerous cells would never acquire the mutations that turn them into malignant tumors if they weren’t being driven by insulin to take up more and more blood sugar and metabolize it."
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=8&_r=1&hpw)



Take a few minutes to read the entire article from the NY Times...


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&hpw