Carbs and Cancer | Men's Health News
The theory: When your blood sugar spikes after a high-carb meal, your cancer cells have a feast, allowing them to rapidly multiply. (Researchers have shown this finding using human cancer cells isolated in a lab setting.) Experts, including Krystal, speculate that depriving the body of carbohydrates allows normal cells to live off body fat, but kills cancer cells, since they can break down energy from blood sugar only.