Sugar and carbs like white bread, white potatoes, rice, etc increase inflammation in the body, which puts significant stress on your health. The Dexamethasone that is part of many of the drug treatments also increases your risk of high blood sugar. Health habits that help you avoid developing diabetes when you need to fight MM are well worth saying no to the sugar tooth 90% of the time. Interesting thing about simple carbs is the more you consume, the more you want. The direct answer is Yes. Eating an unhealthy diet generally, is comparable to drilling holes in bottom of the only life boat you have.

Though the Article is Correct - Sugar won't cause Cancer, Sugar is gasoline-on-a-fire.

The article doesn't refer to multi myeloma or any active cancer. In our cases, MM is never gone - its sort of smoldering in the background if we're MRD Negative. Throw on a bucket of Gas and Light a match and Poof, the House is on Fire.

They refer to the Warburg Effect. He discovered that Cancer Cells consume an enormous amount of Glucose (Sugar) compared to Normal Cells. It needs to do so because its internal use of glucose is far less effective. To make up for it, it has a much larger pipe to receive the glucose and it managed to inhibit the cell's self destruct process. So the cancer cell doesn't die like normal cells (normal cells have a limited life time) and cancer cells reproduce rather rapidly, especially with all of the glucose they consume - they're a runaway freight train.

Though it doesn't exist as a treatment, there's plenty of research on how to Starve Cancer of its badly needed Glucose. Its been suggested a Keto Diet should work but it doesn't, though it may be slowing cancer's growth. I watched a Video - they explained that even on a Keto diet, our blood glucose levels remain normal, so there is glucose available for all our cells - the good and bad. But, the Video made the point that refined Sugars will cause a very quick blood-glucose-spike which the cancer cells will love to soak-up.

From the Article:
" Normal cells and cancer cells both use glucose for energy. Scientists know that cancer cells metabolize glucose faster than normal cells. It’s part of something called the Warburg Effect, named after the German scientist Otto Warburg, who studied cancer in the early 20th century.

The Warburg Effect even has a practical application in diagnosing cancer. In an imaging test called a positron emission tomography (PET) scan, doctors inject radioactive glucose into the bloodstream. Since cancer cells metabolize glucose at a faster rate, the PET scan lights up the location of cancer cells and tumors in your body. Doctors can use the image to find cancer or evaluate how well cancer treatments are working.

Today, some scientists are working on treatments to destroy cancer cells by starving them of glucose. They hope to alter genes that affect the cancer cells’ metabolism or develop drugs that would target cancer cells’ metabolism. "

@A MyMyelomaTeam Member Thanks for the article link. It was informative. Fortunately I don't drink sugary drinks so I can indulge in my once a week donut. 😅

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I imagine if you ate unhealthy carbs and sugar every so often, it probably wouldn’t hurt, but shouldn’t be the norm. There’s a great article on this blog about healthy eating. I recently changed my eating habits, and all my numbers are good. I hope this helps.

My husband eat unhealthy carbs. As a matter of fact he eats whatever he likes. I don’t limit him. That’s what the dietician told me. Let him eat whatever he likes. She never said limit carbs or sugar etc. so I didn’t. He watch his sugar. If it spike he back off.