I’ve always had a non-scientific belief that fat is not the enemy with respect to diet, and in fact, sugar is. The strange thing is how tough it is to cut down on sugar. Try checking labels of every single food product you buy next time you go shopping. It’s almost impossible to avoid sugar and yet there’s a “fat-free” version of practically everything.

That’s why this Time Magazine article caught my eye:

Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer?

This article is interesting and the theory is so simple:

“If most aggressive cancers rely on the fermentation of sugar for growing and dividing, then take away the sugar and they should stop spreading. Meanwhile, normal body and brain cells should be able to handle the sugar starvation; they can switch to generating energy from fatty molecules called ketone bodies — the body’s main source of energy on a fat-rich diet — an ability that some or most fast-growing and invasive cancers seem to lack.”

I hope that more research will be done in this area. I’ve always had a belief that there is a connection between nutrition and cancer.

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