Reddit reviews Anticancer: A New Way of Life

Anticancer is a good book about this topic. It was a fairly interesting read as well.

Interesting. In my shaving book section on acne, I quote Anticancer: A New Way of Life, by David Servan-Schreiber:

>When [Loren Cordain, PhD] was told that certain population groups whose way of life is very different from ours had no experience of acne (which is caused by an inflammation of the epidermis, among other mechanisms), he wanted to find out how this could occur… Cordain accompanied a team of dermatologists to examine the skin of 1,200 adolescents cut off from the rest of the world in the Kitavan Islands of New Guinea, and 130 Ache Indians living in isolation in Paraguay. In these two groups they found no trace whatsoever of acne. In their article in Archives of Dermatology, the researchers attributed their amazing discovery to the adolescents’ nutrition. The diets of these contemporary sheltered groups resemble those of our distant ancestors: no refined sugar or white flour, thus no peaks of insulin or IGF in the blood.
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>In Australia, researchers convinced Western adolescents to try a diet restricting sugar and white flour for three months. In a few weeks, their insulin and IGF levels diminished. So did their acne.

Note a key finding: "in a few weeks..." I suspect most people would not try it for that long on their own: a week, max, and if no big change, back to business as usual---the same reason people can't lose that last 10 pounds.

Also see the NY Times article "Is Sugar Toxic?" and this video by the University of California on the effects of sugar.

Chapter 6 of this book would go much farther explaining the rising health problems in America far more than shotgun blast (with no rational basis) GMO food. AND, this book uses actual science by actual scientists ;)

edit: i wish this book were required reading in High School health class.