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HI all I have had my 7 weeks off the web and no TV I have got so much done, Read lots of books redecorated the house. But missed my fix of D/S I almost forgot I was diabetic, Not a good thing so I;ll need to get back on track.
Just reading the article below about Metformin Seems every cloud has...
10p diabetes drug could treat breast cancer patients
A 10p-a-day diabetes drug could be used to treat breast cancer sufferers, it is claimed.
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By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 15 Apr 2011
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Scientists have developed a new test that identifies patients who could benefit from the cheap treatment.
They found that the people whose cancer cells “fed” off high-energy compounds were more likely to see their tumours spread or to die.
This meant they could be helped by being given the diabetes drug, metformin, which stops the “fuel supply” for aggressive cancer cells.
Professor Michael Lisanti, from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit at the University of Manchester, said: “We’ve shown that the saying, ‘you are what you eat’ holds true for cancer. The food cancer cells consume is crucial to how well a patient does and what treatment they need.
“If cancer cells are consuming high-energy food, this makes a tumour more aggressive and harder to treat. However, patients could benefit from metformin, which cuts off this fuel supply. There is more work to do but this test could be an important new way of tailoring treatments to a patient’s needs, across a range of cancers.”
Last year it was reported that metformin was being tested to see if it can stop the growth of lung cancers.
In a new paper published in the journal Cell Cycle, researchers from Manchester and Thomas Jefferson University in the US describe their attempts to see if it will also help breast cancer sufferers.
They studied 219 breast cancer patients and worked out which ones had tumours that fed on high-energy foods, known as ketones and lactate, found in healthy cells.
The researchers found that the patients whose cancer cells consumed high levels of ketones and lactate were more likely to have their disease return, spread to other organs or die.
This group is most likely to benefit from being given metformin, the standard treatment for Type 2 diabetes that costs as little as 10p a day.
Professor Anthony Howell, Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit in Manchester, said: “It is particularly encouraging that some of those treatments might already be in the doctor’s drug cabinet, and cheap to prescribe.
"We have some way to go but we hope that drugs like metformin will be saving lives of breast cancer patients over the next few years.”
Just reading the article below about Metformin Seems every cloud has...
10p diabetes drug could treat breast cancer patients
A 10p-a-day diabetes drug could be used to treat breast cancer sufferers, it is claimed.
Photo: GETTY
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 15 Apr 2011
Follow Martin Beckford on Twitter
1 Comment
Scientists have developed a new test that identifies patients who could benefit from the cheap treatment.
They found that the people whose cancer cells “fed” off high-energy compounds were more likely to see their tumours spread or to die.
This meant they could be helped by being given the diabetes drug, metformin, which stops the “fuel supply” for aggressive cancer cells.
Professor Michael Lisanti, from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit at the University of Manchester, said: “We’ve shown that the saying, ‘you are what you eat’ holds true for cancer. The food cancer cells consume is crucial to how well a patient does and what treatment they need.
“If cancer cells are consuming high-energy food, this makes a tumour more aggressive and harder to treat. However, patients could benefit from metformin, which cuts off this fuel supply. There is more work to do but this test could be an important new way of tailoring treatments to a patient’s needs, across a range of cancers.”
Last year it was reported that metformin was being tested to see if it can stop the growth of lung cancers.
In a new paper published in the journal Cell Cycle, researchers from Manchester and Thomas Jefferson University in the US describe their attempts to see if it will also help breast cancer sufferers.
They studied 219 breast cancer patients and worked out which ones had tumours that fed on high-energy foods, known as ketones and lactate, found in healthy cells.
The researchers found that the patients whose cancer cells consumed high levels of ketones and lactate were more likely to have their disease return, spread to other organs or die.
This group is most likely to benefit from being given metformin, the standard treatment for Type 2 diabetes that costs as little as 10p a day.
Professor Anthony Howell, Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit in Manchester, said: “It is particularly encouraging that some of those treatments might already be in the doctor’s drug cabinet, and cheap to prescribe.
"We have some way to go but we hope that drugs like metformin will be saving lives of breast cancer patients over the next few years.”
I have an aunt who was diagnosed with Hodgin's Lymphoma. She's getting chemo and seeing a nutritionist. They told her to avoid ALL sugar because sugar feeds cancer. Goes right along with this article. With all the side effects of medications today having a dual purpose one sounds wonderful!
Looks as if Metformin may be a wonder drug.
Yes its good to be taking a drug without 27 side effects that does not put on weight
my main blood sugar control is exercise,
I;ll take a lesson from Lesa's book and stay off the other diabetic site for a while
there are too many mad Dogs on there ready to bite your head off.
Talk about Troll city USA
The sun is shinning in London and after years of being told to splash on the sun block cream Now it seems that its blocking out the absorption of vit D
and after years of fat being the no one evil It seems its not so bad after all
Sugar is the big national no one enemy
I remember reading a book called pure white and deadly Years ago
say how bad sugar was, but all the sweet sellers laughed it off and nobody seemed to have taken much notice
apart from fruit I don't touch any of the sweeteners
More and more doctors are becoming really alarmed at how kids seem to be piling on the pounds
this calories in and calories out balance cannot be all there is to weight gain
those Big Brown Rats seem to have all the worlds supply of leptin
if they can grow rats with the brown fat cells why can't I get some from the chemists and be slim again?
Baked rodent with a side of asparagus and a tossed salad doesn't sound very appetizing.
We will need a more sophisticated name for it such as Ratomari :-]
Some cooks always kept the tails attached for ease when serving and were hung out on a rail for veiwing
A rateye stew with mash and pickles could be had for a 2penny piece wahed down with half pint of Gin
If I can find an old London Rat Recipie in the reference library I will post online.
One thing I do know is that its recommeded that they are soacked in Vinigar for 24 hours prior to cooking to kill off any germs or bacteria
The best places to catch the big brown ones is in an old wood yard
Lost I think I would need a couple of pints of Gin before the rateye stew:-]
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By GARY TAUBES
Published: April 13, 2011
On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology.
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Lustig is a specialist on pediatric hormone disorders and the leading expert in childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, which is one of the best medical schools in the country. He published his first paper on childhood obesity a dozen years ago, and he has been treating patients and doing research on the disorder ever since.
The viral success of his lecture, though, has little to do with Lustig’s impressive credentials and far more with the persuasive case he makes that sugar is a “toxin” or a “poison,” terms he uses together 13 times through the course of the lecture, in addition to the five references to sugar as merely “evil.” And by “sugar,” Lustig means not only the white granulated stuff that we put in coffee and sprinkle on cereal — technically known as sucrose — but also high-fructose corn syrup, which has already become without Lustig’s help what he calls “the most demonized additive known to man.”
It doesn’t hurt Lustig’s cause that he is a compelling public speaker. His critics argue that what makes him compelling is his practice of taking suggestive evidence and insisting that it’s incontrovertible. Lustig certainly doesn’t dabble in shades of gray. Sugar is not just an empty calorie, he says; its effect on us is much more insidious. “It’s not about the calories,” he says. “It has nothing to do with the calories. It’s a poison by itself.”
If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.
The number of viewers Lustig has attracted suggests that people are paying attention to his argument. When I set out to interview public health authorities and researchers for this article, they would often initiate the interview with some variation of the comment “surely you’ve spoken to Robert Lustig,” not because Lustig has done any of the key research on sugar himself, which he hasn’t, but because he’s willing to insist publicly and unambiguously, when most researchers are not, that sugar is a toxic substance that people abuse. In Lustig’s view, sugar should be thought of, like cigarettes and alcohol, as something that’s killing us.
This brings us to the salient question: Can sugar possibly be as bad as Lustig says it is?
It’s one thing to suggest, as most nutritionists will, that a healthful diet includes more fruits and vegetables, and maybe less fat, red meat and salt, or less of everything. It’s entirely different to claim that one particularly cherished aspect of our diet might not just be an unhealthful indulgence but actually be toxic, that when you bake your children a birthday cake or give them lemonade on a hot summer day, you may be doing them more harm than good, despite all the love that goes with it. Suggesting that sugar might kill us is what zealots do. But Lustig, who has genuine expertise, has accumulated and synthesized a mass of evidence, which he finds compelling enough to convict sugar. His critics consider that evidence insufficient, but there’s no way to know who might be right, or what must be done to find out, without discussing it.
If I didn’t buy this argument myself, I wouldn’t be writing about it here. And I also have a disclaimer to acknowledge. I’ve spent much of the last decade doing journalistic research on diet and chronic disease — some of the more contrarian findings, on dietary fat, appeared in this magazine —– and I have come to conclusions similar to Lustig’s.
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A good article,worth a read.
I found the u-tube talk very interesting also
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