Temptation

Peanuts are protein. If you eat them, cut back on lunch intake.

Is your wife getting a kick out of watching you squirm? ;-)

Jeff

DaSlink, perhaps you missed my earlier thread about the positive attributes of M & M's.  My thesis was supported by many HW members and a spirited debate ensued about which color was best.  I don't recall that Peanut M & M's were part of the discussion, but I'm positive that those also are GFMPH.

Munch away....

Tudpock (Jim)

Too much sugar obviously is bad, so again Moderat ion. It is my understanding that sugar feeds all cells. Fruit has sugar and we are encouraged , I believe, to have our portions of those. Blood feeds cancer also.

Bronson;
That was Brilliant!. Every thing a PCa boy needs. Sugar free chocolate and nuts in every bite!
Not gonna be hard on the waist either!

So, if I normally eat 5 handfuls, is 3 handfuls moderation ?

How many M & M 's can I eat and still be considered moderate. After we finish this debate, can we move on to jelly beans ?

Goodlife

good life - serving size depends on high big your hands are

Casey59 said...
Well, you are right that sugar does fuel prostate cancer (and other cancers)...it doesn't cause it, but it provides it with fuel. In fact, one of the diagnositic tools, the PET scan, is performed by giving the patient an intravenous glucose solution with a radioactive marker and viewing where the sugar accumulates on a full body scan. Within minutes, the sugar is taken up by the cancer cells and the doctor can see where the cancer is located. The basis of this test is that a sugar encourages the growth of cancer.

And that is one of the erroneous half truths on which the sugar feeds cancer myth is based. Tumour cells do indeed take up the radioactive glucose marker faster than other cells in your body and show up first on the scan. They do this simply because they are more active than other cells in your body. It is for this same reason that other things such as arthritis show up as well at the same time. The changes due to arthritis are equally as active and will take up the glucose at the same rate. If the scan was to continue you would actually see different area of your body begin to light up in order of cell activity. Next on the list would be your brain, a consumer of much glucose (and incidentally where the first reaction to low glucose {= sugar} levels is often felt). Sugar may indeed contribute empty calories foodwise but glucose is the fuel of life and sugar is simply a form of glucose. Eliminating sugar from your diet does not deprive either your body or its tumour of glucose ------- that is simply impossible while you are alive. If you disagree perhaps you could present the evidence to the Mayo clinic:

www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer-causes/CA00085/NSECTIONGROUP=2

Edited to include link.

Post Edited (BillyMac) : 3/31/2011 5:53:58 PM (GMT-6)

Thanks Billy, you provided a well needed scientific angle to my cruder and simplistic answer on the same thing.

BillyMac said...

And that is one of the erroneous....

Dang, BillyBob...I guess they'll just have to take back that Nobel Prize from Otto Warburg (at least one of the two that he was awarded) since you just disproved his whole thesis.  Up until about 2 hours ago when you posted, this was the common understanding:

Glucose has an irrefutable role in encouraging the growth and metastasis of cancer. Based on research and the cancer-sugar connection, the best dietary recommendation for those with cancer may be a whole foods, organic diet with includes more fresh, organic vegetables, but less sweet fruit (such as bananas, figs, dates, etc.) as well as eliminating all refined sugars, (such as fructose, sucrose,sorbitol, maltodextrin, etc.) including hidden refined sugars (found in foods not normally associated with containing sugar such as soups, breads, ketchup, etc.). This carefully planned regime may be an enormous help in regulating blood glucose and hence, improving immunity while selectively starving cancer cells.

Thanks for setting us all straight!

 

 

 

Wanna read about some of that research, search pubmed.gov; enter "prostate cancer insulin"; then change the search to just "cancer insulin"

Or, if you wanna just jump right to the Dr Mark Scholz article in PCRI, go here:  http://www.prostate-cancer.org/education/nutrprod/ScholzBlum_Nutrition_Prostate_Cancer.html

I have this OCD thing, where I can't make myself it the blue ones, afraid of them for some reason, and if there is any defect at all in the coating, in the trash they go. I have high standards when I binge on Peanut MMs.

Billy - dang is a polite yank way of saying d-a-m-n

David,
You certainly like to live life on the edge. Not only sugar but possibly aflatoxins with the nuts and who knows what colour additives you're consuming. Talk about reckless behaviour.
Bill