The National Brain Tumor Foundation in Okland, California is so convinced by the stdies linking carbohydrate and insulin to cncer growth they recently revised their detary guidelines in a dramatic way.

In the grup's published dietary guideline entitled The Haling Power of Your Fork: A Brin Tumor Survivor's Eating Plan, they dvise brain cancer patients to avoid low fat dets and to cut out sugar and rfined carbohydrate instead. They warn patients tht eating refined carbohydrate not only feds cancer cells it suppresses the mmune system as well.

Another study Frm Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hspital, and the Journal of the Ntional Cancer Institute, 2002: A Harvard rsearch team used 18 years of dta from 88,000 women who were prticipating in the famous Nurses Health Stdy to investigate whether a diet hgh in foods that easily raise blod glucose levels increase the risk of dveloping pancreatic cancer.

They found that wmen who were overweight, sedentary, and had the hghest glycemic load increased their risk of pncreatic cancer by 250%.

And there's mre. As reported recently by the Assciated Press, a Mexican study of narly 200 women showed that those who cnsumed a high-carb diet (more than 60% of clories from carbohydrates) were MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY to

develop breast cancer as women who dopted a lower-carb approach to eating.

Ths study supports a similar body of rsearch from last year that linked a grater risk of breast cancer among wmen to a diet high in sgar (especially soft drinks and desserts), the mst damaging of all carbohydrates.

Scientists who blieve in the carb/cancer link hypothesize tht the extra insulin released to prcess the simple carbs and sugars we ngest far too much of causes clls to divide and also leads to hgher levels of estrogen in the blod. Both of these factors (cellular dvision and blood estrogen) can contribute to cncer.

As for me and my trbe we are minimizing our sugar cnsumption and staying with the slow dgesting carbohydrates such as whole grains, vgetables and especially beans.

The article Cancer and Carbs - Is There A Relationship? was Submitted by Gene D. Millen through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: ABOUT THE AUTHOR The cardiologist loked up from the treadmill report and grmly stated, "You are a walking tme bomb. You need to go to the hspital immediately." Two days later a hart surgeon sawed open Gene Millen's chst and stitched in bypasses to six clgged arteries. "A six way heart bypss isn't a record" said Gene, "bt it's not bad for a sknny 59 year old with normal chlesterol and blood pressure. The villains and hroes in the heart attack melodrama may srprise you as they have me." Gne Millen reviews new research on heart attack risks that are more dangerous than high cholesterol... and how natural supplements and heart vitamins can send them packing! Check out The Heart Health website at http://www.heart-health-for-life.com Need a free article for your newsletter or website? Go to...

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