It is a little bit more complicated than that. Food turns to glucose. Most cancer patients start to lose weight, wasting disease, so one would think that in itself would stop the cancer or slow it down. Anti angiogenisis, seems to be a promising exploration, yet not anywhere near where it should be, a cure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis
Cancer sucks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "johnt" <johnlasher20002000@...> wrote: > > Most cancers require glucose to survive. Since a ketogenic diet relys on fat > metabolism rather than glucose metabolism (glycogenesis vs. lipogenesis) many > cancer tumors starve to death or have their growth dramatically slowed. Lot's > of research. A very low carb diet can produce this and can be vegetarian or > even vegan if so desired.Google `Flexi Diet' . > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > On 11/02/2011 06:19 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> Interesting article on Steve Jobs dietary quirks (not too unlike some > > > >> quirks people have here) and comments by nutritional experts: > > > >> http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/02/8598251-the-strange-eating-habits-of-steve-jobs > > > >> > > > > Lots and lots of speculation going on. The fruitarians are saying he'd > > > > have never gotten cancer if only he'd stuck to fruitarianism all along. > > > > The low-carbers think he should have ditched all the cancer-food carbs > > > > and switched to a ketogenic diet. I'd side with the ketogenic diet over > > > > fruitarianism, but I really think he should have jumped at the chance > > > > to have that rare, survivable fucker cut out of his body early, when he > > > > had the chance. > > > > > > > > A friend of mine in FF was diagnosed with ovarian cancer early enough > > > > that she would have likely survived had she gotten surgery. But, she > > > > opted for a yearlong death spiral, doing all sorts of new-age > > > > alternative nonsense. Honestly, I think she really just wanted outta > > > > here. > > > > > > My brother was never into anything new age but came down with colon > > > cancer at age 52. The last few months he was into trying anything but I > > > knew it was too late. Now if he had just eaten the diet he was eating > > > in his last few months he may have never gotten cancer in the first place. > > > > > > > It is not only diet that is causing cancer. Lot's of vegetarians die of > > cancer. > > > > In the seventies, I remember science teachers saying cancers would be > > creeping up in the next twenty years or later because of all the nuclear > > testings and bombs dropped, etc. I buy this story before the belief that > > diet causes cancer. > > Although, I do believe relief can be had for any ailment with a healthy > > diet and make life feel a bit better. Diet takes the blame out of all the > > government testings, thereby liability is passed to the individual exposed > > to all the crap. > > Another theory is our lives have changed so much due to work, environment, > > moving around etc., that the body is trying to adapt by evolving at an > > accelerated rate (evolution gone haywire), increasing the incidences of > > cancer tumors, (they do grow their own supply of veins). Somewhere, there > > is an article on the net supporting the later and it made sense. it is not > > a mystery black mass like in one of the Hollywood movies I saw. lol... > > I can't find it right now. > > >
