A groundbreaking, seven-year human study, by Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD and her team at Nature Works Best, an alternative cancer clinic in Tempe, Arizona, exposes a severe threat to the survival of cancer patients �C the consumption of sweetened food or drinks.
Dr. Huber led a team of physicians in a seven-year interventional study where cancer patients avoided all types of sugar: honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, plant nectars, alcohol and fruit juices (which are high on the glycemic index). This is the first large, human, interventional study that has indicted sugar as deadly for cancer patients. All previous studies were in mice, or retrospective, or in fewer than 20 human subjects.
Since 2006, this clinic has collected data on sugar consumption in cancer patients, and has actively recommended, but never enforced in any way, avoiding the consumption of sweetened foods (except with the sweetener Stevia Rebaudiana, which has no sugar content or sugar alcohol content). In this controlled interventional study, we followed the diets and outcomes of all 317 cancer patients who came to our clinic with a diagnosis of cancer, and who stayed at least two weeks in our care.
The results of the study showed the group of cancer patients who were steadfast in the recommended naturopathic treatments, but did not avoid eating sugar had a remission rate of 36%. The second group who were also steadfast in recommended naturopathic treatments, but did avoid eating sugar had a remission rate of 90%. That is they did not eat: sugar, cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, plant nectars, alcohol or fruit juices (except the sweetener Stevia Rebaudiana).