I'm taking an anatomy class, and how cancer forms is pretty much established science at this point. It happens because our DNA has a termination point that basically caps off cell division and tells a cell to basically die instead of replicating further, and the reason for this is because when it doesn't, defects happen and the termination gene in a cell has a certain percentage chance of fucking up and then basically the cell replicates in a completely out of control fashion, and once it gets into your lymphatic tissues it metastasizes and start spreading through your blood into the rest of your body. The cause of this is essentially Chance. As to whether or not sugar is a carcinogen, I could believe it. But I don't know if that's a long shot or not. They would have to have something in the sugar other than sucrose or fructose as an adulterant, some kind of carcinogen. It's just because of how it's metabolized in your body. Don't get me wrong sugar, table sugar, is incredibly unhealthy to eat because your body doesn't have to go through a lot of work to convert it into glucose in your liver, which means that when you eat added sugar it just gets dumped into your system faster than your body can actually use it, and so it gets stored as adipose tissue around your organs and in particular your liver, which leads to fatty liver disease and various other metabolic syndromes like insulin resistance aka diabetes. Now if they're cutting the sugar with something carcinogenic in order to cut the cost of producing it and increase the profit margins, I could totally believe that. But I have a hard time believing that sugar, pure cane sugar, can directly cause cancer or that it is a carcinogen. I'm just saying because of the chemical structure of it. I mean it's just carbon hydrogen and oxygen.

Now if you want to argue that the metabolic syndromes which excessive sugar consumption can cause, indirectly lead to an increased risk of cancer because say those metabolic syndromes cause damage to your tissues that force your cells to divide at an increased rate in the attempt to repair the damage, yes I would say that can increase the likelihood that you're going to get cancer. But I don't think it is honest intellectually to say that sugar itself is a carcinogen.

I'm taking an anatomy class, and how cancer forms is pretty much established science at this point. It happens because our DNA has a termination point that basically caps off cell division and tells a cell to basically die instead of replicating further, and the reason for this is because when it doesn't, defects happen and the termination gene in a cell has a certain percentage chance of fucking up and then basically the cell replicates in a completely out of control fashion, and once it gets into your lymphatic tissues it metastasizes and start spreading through your blood into the rest of your body. The cause of this is essentially Chance. As to whether or not sugar is a carcinogen, I could believe it. But I don't know if that's a long shot or not. They would have to have something in the sugar other than sucrose or fructose as an adulterant, some kind of carcinogen. It's just because of how it's metabolized in your body. Don't get me wrong sugar, table sugar, is incredibly unhealthy to eat because your body doesn't have to go through a lot of work to convert it into glucose in your liver, which means that when you eat added sugar it just gets dumped into your system faster than your body can actually use it, and so it gets stored as adipose tissue around your organs and in particular your liver, which leads to fatty liver disease and various other metabolic syndromes like insulin resistance aka diabetes. Now if they're cutting the sugar with something carcinogenic in order to cut the cost of producing it and increase the profit margins, I could totally believe that. But I have a hard time believing that sugar, pure cane sugar, can directly cause cancer or that it is a carcinogen. I'm just saying because of the chemical structure of it. I mean it's just carbon hydrogen and oxygen.