Dear Healthy Friend,

It's been labelled the "Big C". It's a deadly killer, with an even deadlier treatment. We try our best to stop it from happening to us. But what if I told you that no matter what you do, there is something that could literally feed cancer in your body? See Christine's article below to find out what cancer cells thrive on...

In the name of good health,

Taryn Strugnell
Managing Editor of Nutrition & Healing

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Is your diet packed with cancer's favourite food?
Christine O'Brien
Contributor - Nutrition & Healing

I hate feeling good about bad news.

But I just can't help it.

The news? That fructose is more or less the absolute favourite food of cancer cells.

It's awful, I know - fructose is gobbled up in large amounts by people in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). With so many people eating so much of it each year, this news is downright devastating.

But as terrible as this news is, it also gives me a glimmer of hope. Hope that the day when HFCS is just a bad memory isn't too far off.

I know, I know. This isn't the first time that I've expressed hope that HFCS could soon be a thing of the past. Serious weight gain, liver scarring... Really, how much more do we need to find out about this stuff before it's enough to get it out of the grocery store for good?

I mean, it's getting pretty ridiculous. Here we have a substance that is CLEARLY harmful, yet food manufacturers remain content to plug up their ears and keep churning out HFCS-laden products.

When will they wake up and stop willfully poisoning food?

I don't think using the word "poisoning" is taking it too far, either, especially in light of this new study. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles found that pancreatic cancer cells use fructose to divide and multiply. It's basically a superfood for cancer cells.

The American Beverage Association has long argued that sugar is sugar
- and then there were claims that HFCS is fine in moderation, just like sugar? Well, sorry, but that line isn't going to work anymore.

Cancer cells use fructose and glucose in two different ways. They can live off regular sugar (glucose), but fructose is what fuels their division.

The research team responsible for this work now hopes to develop a drug that can stop cancer cells from using fructose.

Is it just me or does that sound totally insane? How about we just stick with getting rid of the stuff? It's not like there's some benefit we'd be missing out on if it disappears...

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