Archive for June, 2009

Rick

Cancer and Sugar

Some research has indicated that the consumption of sugar may increase colon cancer risk; other studies have determined there is no link between sugar and colon cancer.  While one of these is true and the other not (and don’t ask me which is which), the facts are not important here.  What is importnant is that my wife, Sally, thinks there is a link.

I cannot reject the idea that eating a healthy diet all the time, but especially after being diagnosed with cancer, is a good idea.  It is quite another to join lunacy and declare war against sugar and its evils.  I submit the following affidavit as evidence.

On or about May 1st, 2009, after reading about a POSSIBLE link between cancer and sugar, my wife threw out a package of recently opened Oreo Double Stuffs with two rows of cookies left!

Is this something someone in complete control of their faculties would do?  The sugar/cancer connection thing is insane!  It makes people do unreasonable things, like a cult, cult of the sugar cancer connection!  How can something, which appears to be a theory, gain so much traction?

And it does not stop there. Normally sane people have offered all kinds of sagely advice on how to resist or beat cancer.  Now some suggestions are more common sense, others have the backing of the medical field or first hand accounts, while others are just insane.  Please research the topic before you forward me one of these.

I tried all the reasonable ones, even the one where you lick a monkey’s butt for a week.  I still have cancer so I am keeping my date with the surgeon tomorrow.  Good night for now.  Don’t let the bed bugs bite.  The bites itch like crazy and can get infected.