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What does cancer eat? Sugar, mostly, and other lessons from my dinner with a professor of pathology
What got my attention was his remark about celery. You know: the dieters’ wishful thinking on whether eating celery is a sum negative activity, or not. He was certainly entitled to speak. His name is Dr. Gerald Krystal and he’s a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at University of British Columbia, as well as Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory at the BC Cancer Agency.
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I've been reading about this in other places..The scariest part of this is how the food industry slips this into everything and it takes some diligence to work around it.
At the same time, the article is greatly oversimplified. All cultures eat carbs, it's not only found in the Western diet . Also, vegetarians eat a ton of carbs and often not enough protein so why is their lifestyle considered healthier?