sugarandcancer

Nutritional Nuggets: Cancer and Diet

Cancer accounts for approximately 13 percent of all deaths each year with the most common being lung, stomach, colorectal, liver, and breast cancer. Life style and dietary measures alone have been said to prevent an estimated 30-40 percent of all cancers. This makes diet second only to tobacco as a preventable risk factor for the …

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Bursting Myths: Sugar and Cancer

MYTH: Taking sugar in food and soft drinks can cause cancer. FACT: Sugar does not cause cancer, either in its natural form in sugar-containing food items (such as yam, potato, pasta, wheat and rice) or in processed forms (such as in soda and fizzy drinks, corn syrup and fruit juices).  It may, however, leave you …

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