Cutting Carbs Won't Save You From Cancer

Published: Oct. 26, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

Half-eaten doughnuts hit the bottom of waste bins around the world this week, as news feeds spread word of a new dietary danger. Yes, headlines declared, a new study shows that sugar is the favorite food of cancer. Cancer. \u201cThis link between sugar and cancer has sweeping consequences,\u201d wrote Johan Thevelein, a Belgian biologist and co-author of the study published last Friday in the journal Nature Communications. Sweeping is right.