CARBS & CANCER: Are muffins, cookies or candies available in your oncologists office? Did your doctor tell you to eat milkshakes or sweets to help you maintain your weight? If you switched to whole-grain breads, cereals and pastas when you were diagnosed, are you still at risk? Use this handy infographic to educate yourself and others about the role of insulin resistance in fueling cancer growth and progression. Let's get the word out about the science linking carbs and cancer! Please share.

1. 9 Ways Sugar Impacts Cancer
Are you eating too many carbs? Sweets and starches—even “healthy” whole—
grains—can lead to insulin resistance, which impacts cancer several ways.
Let us show you how to find the right amount of carbs for your body!s metabolism.
© 2013, Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC • www.Nutritional-Solutions.net
Evidence-based nutrition consulting for cancer patients and oncologists worldwide since 1997.
9 Ways Sugar Impacts Cancer
Are you eating too many carbs? Sweets and starches—even “healthy” whole—
grains—can lead to insulin resistance, which impacts cancer several ways.
Let us show you how to find the right amount of carbs for your body!s metabolism.
© 2013, Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC • www.Nutritional-Solutions.net
Evidence-based nutrition consulting for cancer patients and oncologists worldwide since 1997.
9 Ways Sugar Impacts Cancer
Are you eating too many carbs? Sweets and starches—even “healthy” whole—
grains—can lead to insulin resistance, which impacts cancer several ways.
Let us show you how to find the right amount of carbs for your body!s metabolism.
© 2013, Jeanne M. Wallace, PhD, CNC • www.Nutritional-Solutions.net
Evidence-based nutrition consulting for cancer patients and oncologists worldwide since 1997.
Promotes ANGIOGENESIS,
new blood vessels that fuel
tumor growth and progression
Stimulates MITOSIS,
the division of a cell into
daughter cells Increases insulin-
like growth factor (IGF-1), a
potent growth factor that
allows cancer cells to EVADE
APOPTOSIS (cell death)
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Drives
oxidation and
increases DNA
DAMAGE, which
can stimulate cancer
cell mutation and more
aggressive behavior
1 4
Increases IL-6 and
fans the fires of
INFLAMMATION,
a known tumor
promoter
INHIBITS IMMUNE
FUNCTION
3
Stimulates synthesis of super-
antioxidant GLUTATHIONE
inside cancer cells, permitting
them to escape the cytotoxic
effects of chemotherapy and
radiation treatments
6
7
8
Drives up
circulating
ESTROGEN
levels
2
Boosts leptin, which stimulates
CELL MIGRATION, and cancer
spread (called metastasis)
5
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