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Ketogenic diet recommended for cancer patients

Hi Paulie,
Thanks for the link makes an interesting read, I had read of the benefits of low carb and the prevention of cancer previously, but this goes further in suggesting benefits in the treatment of cancer.

Regards
Graham
 
Interesting read.
I knew that some medical conditions respond to ketogenic diets, but there was some new stuff there.
Hana
 
That is so interesting Paulie - thanks for posting it. I had read before that sugar feeds cancer cells - they can't promise a cure, but I wonder how many people's cancer has gone in to remission as a result???

If it is possible, and I don't see why not, that a Ketogenic Diet can reduce or even reverse the growth of tumour cells then it would be fairly logical to assume that it could also prevent their formation.

The high-carb Western diet is contributory to plenty of other things, there is no reason why we couldn't add Cancer to the list!
 
Great stuff paulie, thanks for posting the link.
There are some real parallels between potential treatments for diabetes and cancer, or more accurately, looking away when treatments are right in front of us. All the research budgets are focused on developing pharmacological, patentable treatments for these conditions. That's where the money is made after all.
There is no motivation to find simple dietary strategies which reduce the incidence of diabetes or cancer. Big pharma makes no money out of healthy people.
It's been well established that cancers only flourish in the presence of glucose since the 1930's. Avoidance of glucose and carbohydrates has been a successful strategy for treatment of diabetes for thousands of years (Edward the Confessor developed diabetes in the 11th C. and was prescribed a low carb diet!).
It's not that it doesn't work and it's not that it isn't widely understood. It's simply that no-one has figured out a way to make it more profitable than selling drugs.

fergus
 
There is no motivation to find simple dietary strategies which reduce the incidence of diabetes or cancer. Big pharma makes no money out of healthy people.
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Hi Fergus,
This is from Thomas Seyfried says much the same, and is probably why there are no long term studies into Low Carb diets.

"Clinical studies are highly warranted," he says, attributing the lack of human studies to the medical establishment, which he feels is single-minded in its approach to treatment, and opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, which doesn't stand to profit much from a dietetic treatment for cancer.
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html

Graham
 
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