I love sugar.  My friend and trainer says it’s my crack.  It’s not just that I love the sweetness, sugar runs in my blood literally and figuratively.   My father worked for a large sugar company for many years, he sold sugar, and he was good at it.  My education, vacations, shoes, wedding, all paid for by sugar.   As a child I remember large packages from Hershey and Nestle and the Coca Cola Company arriving at our door—tokens from my father’s business contacts.  Sugar has been good to my family.   So I don’t like the haters.    But now I’m a cancer survivor and there is a truth about sugar that I have to face:  in excess—like most things—it isn’t great for you.

All cells, good and bad, need sugar to grow.  But when you’re fighting cancer, you have to be careful about the type and quantity of sugar you eat because you don’t want to fuel the bad cells.   The Caring 4 Cancer website has an easy one-pager that lays out the nutritional details and cites legitimate studies that I post it here for other cancer patients who are trying to separate fact from fiction:

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/sugar-and-cancer-is-there-a-connection.htm

This is all to say that I’ve had to cut some (but not all) of the beloved sweet out of my diet and am finding alternative ways to appreciate food (Trainer reads and jumps for joy).