Element in Focus: Nutrition

Sugar: Dangers and Changes

Did you know that the food you eat can affect your cancer recovery? Research has found that cutting refined sugar out of our diet actually starves cancer cells and takes away the glucose that they need to grow. You can support your recovery and remission by cutting refined sugars out of your diet.

How do I make a change?

Cutting refined sugar out of the diet may sound like a challenge, but you can start by:

• Visiting a health food store and selecting versions of your favorite foods that are free of refined sugar. Avoid foods with ingredients that list sugar, cane sugar, or anything that rhymes with the word “gross”:
  • Fructose, sucrose, and dextrose.
• Replacing added sugars in your cooking with fruit purees, stevia, or raw, organic honey
• Talking to a functional medicine doctor or functional nutritionist about ketogenic, Paleolithic, and other sugar-free raw or ancestral diets