Fructose helps cancer grow

[rambone]

Avoid corn by-products, especially fructose and High-Fructose Corn Syrup.

They cause obesity, and now show links to cancer.

Be a responsible shopper and stop feeding yourself and your family garbage.

Read the labels. Its in nearly everything. Bread, snacks, drinks, condiments. Avoid it! It will be worth the extra effort.

Corn byproduct fructose literally fuels cancer cell growth, study finds

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. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.

"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."

Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.

Politicians, regulators, health experts and the industry have debated whether high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy.

Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.

Several states, including New York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks to defray the cost of treating obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods have strongly, and successfully, opposed efforts to tax soda.

The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.

Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.

Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. "Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different," Heaney's team wrote.

"I think this paper has a lot of public health implications.

Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets," Heaney said in a statement.

Now the team hopes to develop a drug that might stop tumor cells from making use of fructose.

U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup went up 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990, researchers reported in 2004 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

 

[jeremy]

This is also from the same group of People who have claimed that red meats, carrots, potatos, pork, and sex cause cancer also...

I'll take it with a grain of salt...

 

[NordicHeathenVinlander]

These "corn" products, we try to avoid to the extent of banishing. Freaking crap is in near everything.

 

[paintball_addiction]

You gotta die of something. It might as well be from something that tastes good.

Give it a couple weeks and they'll have a new study saying that it cures some other disease.

 

[6birds]

They cause obesity, and now show links to cancer.

BS. Eating more calories than you burn causes obesity. Take some responsibility for yourself, quit blaming others.

"Linked" to cancer? As in "we used corn syrup and cancer in the same sentence"?

 

[6birds]

I'll take it with a grain of salt...

Damn it man, salt will kill you too!! It must be outlawed!!

 

[LPMan59]

lolz

 

[Kirk Freeman]

How about the fructose in fruit?

 

[jeremy]

How about the fructose in fruit?

SSShhhhhh....

Don't ask valid questions. You may confuse people with the facts...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

If fructose causes, or aggravates, cancer, are vegans ate up with cancer?

 

[PapaScout]

Oxygen fulls cancel cells, too. Cancel cells need an energy source just like every other living thing.

 

[lovemachine]

Rule of thumb. You really can't avoid fructose. High Fructose is found in ketchup and other condoments. And a lot of drinks. High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad stuff. But if you must eat/drink it, only avoid it if the sugar content and the sodium content is very high. If those 2 aren't high, then you're ok!

 

[caddywhompus]

AHHHH! It's bad for you! Tax the devil out of it!!

 

[DaKruiser]

Oxygen fulls cancel cells, too. Cancel cells need an energy source just like every other living thing.

Spell check?


What else should we do with all that corn? We ruin our beef with it! Why not our selves?

 

[ATOMonkey]

Cancer is going to eat up calories regardless of where they come from.

Will a tumor grow faster if you feed it syrup? Probably, but starving yourself won't keep a tumor from growing either.

We've been trying to eat a lot more whole foods and avoid the syrup when possible.

 

[Denny347]

High fruictose corn syrup is absolute garbage. Consuming it spikes your insuline response in the body. You do this enough and your body will require more and more insuline to do the same job. Eventually your body develops insuline resistance and you will require medication to handle it. Calories should not be the most important factor in your eating...it is WHAT you are eating more than calories. Example, 3,000 a day in twinkies or the same in lean meats, vegis, fruits. I would venture to say that you will be better off eating 3,000 calories good food than 1500 calories of junk. Sadly, HFCS is found in many foods and canned fruits. You will be much better off if you avoid it, it is quite possible. It is doing nothing to help you live better/longer.

 

[PapaScout]

Spell check?

'Cancel' is a word. How would spell check have helped me?

 

[jeremy]

What else should we do with all that corn? We ruin our beef with it! Why not our selves?

Elaborate on this subject please...
How does corn ruin Beef?!

 

[wolfman]

Monsanto owns most of the corn in this country anyhow.
There is no escaping cancer. We're poisoning ourselves to death from hundreds of sources. Half a dozen of one, six of the other.

You know not of what you write !!!!!
Ask any of the farmers on this board who own both corn, and the ground that it was grown on.

 

[theweakerbrother]

As a fatty and someone who love sugar, I feel as if I am an expert who will share his opinion.

I had a conversation regarding high fructose corn syrup and the bad rap it has. This was a licensed/registered dietitian and asked her both for her answer behind her professional opinion and as her personal opinion. Her response was the same (smart lady!).

The problem isn't a semi-processed sugar being used from a surplus crop to sweeten goods that is the problem. The problem is that it has become such a cheap ingredient to use and Americans, as a whole, are fairly unhealthy that it has led to increased sugar intake.

Pick up 20 random items in your kitchen (I tried this). Count how many of them have fructose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose or sugar listed. My kitchen exploration found 15 out of the 20 random items had sugar in them. It is no surprise that the natural foods and diets that our bodies were meant to have were not meant to include those many sugar based carbs. Couple that with a mostly sedentary lifestyle and you're on the fast track to diabetes.

Take a summer cook out and the foods you eat. Sugared sodas and even cheap American beer contain corn by-products and sugars. Hot dog buns? Ours had two kinds of sugars listed. Ketchup? You got it; sugar. What about sides? Chips? Sugar. Baked beans? Sugar. Potato Salad? Sugar. Canned Peas? SUGAR. Canned corn? SUGAR AND HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!? Really? Yes, really. We're sweetening the sweetest of already sweetened grains.

We blame food manufacturers for the sugar intake, but they do double blind taste tests. Because we live in a culture of sugared everything, we prefer those foods. So, to turn a buck, these companies are only feeding what we're telling them we want and what they want to sell to make money. It isn't immoral, it isn't evil and it is exactly what we're asking for.

Watch your labels. Watch your carbs and for your sake, count your carbs. It doesn't take much to get up to your 4 carb servings a meal. Even 'health' food contains a lot of junk.

I'm trying to lose weight... see INGO BIG BOY'S thread... and it is hard as a person who has crammed food down my thread for the 29 years I've been alive.