The U.S. medical industry continues to treat cancer from a foundation of newly developed drugs and/or technological advances for arresting this deadly disease.  Inappropriately, medical professionals seemingly choose to avoid being role models as cancer prevention advocates making people aware to avoid the well-known things that cause cancer, such as refined sugar, tobacco, radiation, benzene, asbestos, solvents, and some drugs and hormones.

That’s right, sugar!  For example, researches have found that people who routinely drink two or more refined sugar contained soft drinks per week run a serious risk of contracting pancreatic cancer.  Typically, the high levels of sugar in soft drinks increase the level of insulin in the body, which seems to significantly contribute to pancreatic cancer cell escalation.

The pancreas is a gland organ in our digestive and endocrine system.  It produces several important hormones, including insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin, as well as an exocrine gland, secreting pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes that pass to the small intestine.  Pancreatic cancer has been called a "silent" disease because early pancreatic cancer usually does not cause symptoms.  However, if a cancer tumor develops and blocks the common bile duct where bile cannot pass into the digestive system, the skin and whites of the eyes may become yellow, and the urine may become darker. (A condition called jaundice)  Cancer of the pancreas can also cause nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, and weakness.

Sugar is a generic term used to identify simple carbohydrates, which includes monosaccharides such as fructose, glucose and galactose; and disaccharides such as maltose and sucrose (white table sugar).  When eaten, try to imagine any of these sugars as different-shaped bricks of a large wall.  When fructose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index registers as healthier, since this simple sugar is slowly absorbed in the gut, then converted to glucose in the liver.

Slow is good, because this makes for "time-release foods," which offer a more gradual rise and fall in blood-glucose levels.  If glucose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index will be higher and less healthy for an individual.  As the brick wall is torn apart in digestion, the glucose is pumped across the intestinal wall directly into the bloodstream, rapidly raising blood-glucose levels.  In other words, if levels are too low it will make one feel lethargic and can create clinical hypoglycemia; when levels are too high a person can start creating the rippling effect of diabetic health problems.

Sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup are processed into just about every item we buy from stores, giving rise to obesity, depression, poor circulation, dull skin, and other ill-health effects.  It goes into packaged cereals, sandwich spreads, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and most microwavable items.

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Dean Jones is a marketing strategist with Southland Partnership Corporation and such articles stem from too many enterprises taking advantage of our food and water supply.