Sugars and Cancer ~ Not a good thing!

While I agree at a high level with your comment on M O D E R A T I O N, Jerry, the reality of what I've witnessed in discussions—even with other prostate cancer patients eager to extend their lives & quality of life— is that many Americans have totally lost perspective on what moderation means.  We have to do more to educate ourselves, and Dr Lawenda's information is much appreciated/needed. 

Sadly, the “moderation fallacy” prevents many men with PC from gaining any benefit from their lifestyle choices at all (in fact, the S.A.D. Standard American Diet is filled with "cancer fuels" instead of "cancer fighters"). For many Americans, does moderation mean eating one cookie a day, or one less cookie than we usually eat? Perhaps it means that we don’t eat the whole cookie jar. The problem is that it can mean anything that we want it to mean…and the nutrition/cancer experts say that isn’t good enough when we are talking about promoting healthy eating behaviors. To say “all things in moderation” is an excuse to maintain the status quo, which arguably is “average.” What is “average” or “standard” in the S.A.D.? Well, to gauge where the average is, realize that only 2% of Americans conform to the “My Plate” guidelines (the newest rendition of the Food Pyramid), which translates to 7 days out of the year. “Everything in moderation” fails because there’s nothing moderate about the Standard American Diet.

The extensive research published in the last decade alone proves that what you eat can have a profound effect on your protection against cancer…vegan is about as “all in” as it gets, but extensive changes can be made without going “all in.” It's a little-known fact, pointed out by Dr Lawenda, that nutrition is barely taught in med schools, where the solution to most problems is a drug or a procedure. And doctors don't trust patients to make lifestyle changes. In his book Anticancer, Dr David Servan-Schreiber recalled a conversation with a fellow physician at a conference after he spoke on the importance of a healthy diet in fighting disease. "You may be right, David, but people don't want to change," he said. "They just want to take a pill and forget about it." Poor choice.

An anti-cancer lifestyle and diet reduces the risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and other causes…and men die from heart disease at 10x the rate that they die from PC. Maintaining a healthy weight, getting 30 minutes a day of exercise (most days of the week), and eating primarily a plant-based diet are the 3 primary and consistent factors that provided the most benefit for living a long healthy life.

Lifestyle choices are a choice.