Carbs, not fats, cause weight gain

A 'healthy' diet increases body weight

Carbs are the only foods that increase body weight. I know this is heresy to the 'healthy eating' dictocrats, but it is demonstrably true. This is how it works:

Carbohydrates – it doesn't matter whether these are in sugar, jam, bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, fruit or vegetables – are all exactly the same as far as your body is concerned: they are all ultimately converted to the blood sugar, glucose.

All carbs are digested very quickly – within a few minutes. This means that within a very short time after a carb-rich 'healthy' meal the level of glucose in your bloodstream will rise rapidly as is demonstrated in the graph at Figure 1. (Note that this shows very clearly that eating fat does not raise blood glucose.


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Cancers Are Sugar Junkies

It's now more than 70 years since Otto Warburg, Ph.D. won the 1931 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. The crux of his Nobel thesis was that malignant tumours frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic metabolism compared to normal tissues. In other words, they don't like oxygen.

The significance of this is that fat and ketone bodies as a source of energy require oxygen while glucose doesn't. And that in turn which means that cancer cells are dependent on glucose for growth. All cells can use glucose, but cancer cells consume as much as 4 or 5 times more than normal, healthy cells. In fact, cancer cells seem to have great difficulty surviving without glucose. A study carried out by Johns Hopkins researchers found evidence that some cancer cells are such incredible sugar junkies that they'll self-destruct when deprived of glucose.

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