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Articles by Frank Jasper, Holistic Health Professional Announcements

Sugar, Cancer's Best Friend

December 12, 2007
by Frank Jasper, L.Ac.

As it turns out sugar is not such a “sweet” story after all. In the United States the yearly sugar consumption, per individual, has increased over the last two decades from 26 pounds to 135 pounds. Over this same period cancer rates have also increased. Now one in three people will get cancer in his or her lifetime. Before the turn of the century (1887-1890), the average consumption of sugar was only 5 pounds per year and cardiovascular disease and cancer were relatively unknown. Sugar consumption is not the only factor that is responsible for such a sharp increase in the number of cancer related deaths, which hit an astonishing 570,000 per year in 2005. But it does indeed have a direct correlation to cancer growth and expression, a factor that cannot be ignored.
 

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