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The continuously increasing incidence of cancer is directly alarming. Therefore we should try to do anything to reduce the risk of this deadly disease. Besides psychological factors and a polluted environment, another significant factor contributing to its rising incidence is the food we consume.
More precisely, it is the wrong kinds of foods that literally serve as fuel for cancer, driving its spread and growth.
Groundbreaking discovery at the beginning of the 20th century
However, there is one thing that, if you eliminate it from your diet, will dramatically reduce the risk of developing cancer. And it’s not new!
This thing has been known since the 1920s, when the German Nobel laureate, physician and leading biochemist Dr. Otto Warburg made a groundbreaking discovery.
He found that ordinary sugar literally drives cancer growth like fuel in an engine.
It is therefore very sad that even today, almost 100 years after that discovery, current oncologists do not warn their patients about the dangers of sugar and processed foods.
It breaks our hearts to see how, on oncology wards, patients are sometimes served things like white bread (made mostly of carbohydrates), milk (also promotes cancer growth) or even sweets or desserts full of sugar.
Dr. Otto Warburg was convinced that, although it is not entirely easy, every cancer patient could himself starve the cancer to death.
What Dr. Otto Warburg discovered about sugar and cancer
According to him, the growth of malignant cancer cells is caused by the burning of glucose through its breakdown without the use of oxygen (glucose is normally processed in the presence of oxygen).
This anaerobic breakdown of glucose is the result of recycling glycolysis (a metabolic process) and alcohol dehydrogenase via the Adha gene.
This is therefore the exact opposite of how healthy cells work, which produce energy from glucose with the help of oxygen in cellular mitochondria.
On this basis Dr. Warburg concluded that cancer is essentially a mitochondrial dysfunction, in which the body, instead of normally using oxygen, creates energy by fermenting sugars.
Therefore he believed that if a patient removed sugar from the diet, cancer would not develop in the body. And if it had already developed, you could starve it to death in this way.
Which foods to remove from the diet in order to starve cancer
However, removing sugar from the diet is easier said than done.
You can avoid foods that obviously contain refined sugar — such as sweets, cakes, cookies, and the like.
However many foods containing sugar either do not disclose its presence on the label at all, or hide it under other names such as corn or glucose-fructose syrup.
Therefore the best rule is to avoid processed foods and convenience foods to which sugar is most often added. Instead prefer unprocessed foods.
This means the following:
- fresh vegetables and not canned
- fresh unprocessed meat and not processed meat products (salamis, sausages, and similar)
- no cookies, biscuits, chocolates and other sweets
- fruit only in moderation and only those that do not contain a high proportion of sugar
- no milk and dairy products (except natural plain yogurts, or cottage cheese in the Budwig anti-cancer diet)
- bread/pastries only very limited, and only wholegrain with a low glycemic index
- no alcohol (it often contains sugar and overall burdens the body)
It is also better to at least temporarily stop eating in restaurants where you are not sure what ingredients were used to prepare your food and instead cook for yourself at home.
We must not forget things like store-bought salad dressing, which contains a large amount of sugar. Preferably prepare your own at home from olive oil and lemon juice.
In cancer it is also recommended to limit meat consumption, because its digestion consumes too large an amount of proteolytic enzymes from the pancreas, which are necessary for fighting cancer.
