The risk is high in the Western world, where sugar makes up such a large percentage of an individual's diet.
You might want to hold off on the sugar to sweeten your tea and avoid sweets altogether: a recent study of mice fed sugar demonstrated that breast cancer tumors and their spreading is more likely with high sugar consumption.
The risk is further increased in the Western world where high fructose corn syrup and table sugar is consumed in a high percentage of food items, according to upi.com. Previous documented research shows a strong connection between sugar and inflammation as well as several types of cancer being linked to dietary sugar.
This latest research, according to Professor of Palliative Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson, Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, “investigated the impact of dietary sugar on mammary gland tumor development in multiple mouse models, along with mechanisms that may be involved.”
Dr. Cohen, quoted in a press release said, “we determined that it was specifically fructose, in table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, ubiquitous within our food system, which was responsible for facilitating lung metastasis and 12-HETE production in breast tumors.”
Mice were randomized into four separate diet groups and fed one of four diets with sucrose and fructose, at various levels. By the time they were six months old, between 50 and 58 percent developed mammary tumors when fed the sucrose enriched diet.
Thirty percent of mice on a starch controlled diet “had measurable tumors” at the same age. Researchers also reported more lung metastases among the sucrose and fructose mice group.
According to Dr. Cohen “more research is needed to find whether sugar has a direct or indirect effect on tumor growth.”
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