Last week, the UK government’s plans to roll out a sugar tax by 2018 stirred some mixed reactions. But whichever way you look at it, the long-term health consequences of consuming all that added sugar cannot be denied.

It turns out that the damage sugar does to your body goes a lot further than just your waistline or your hips. In fact, if you are female and you consume too much sugar, you may be setting yourself on a path towards breast cancer.

Sweet problem

According to the shocking results of a new study, published in the journal Cancer Research, researchers from the University of Texas, found that consuming large amounts of sugar over a prolonged period of time can increase your chances of developing breast cancer.

Worse yet, it can actually help the disease spread to other areas throughout your body.

For the study, researchers fed two groups of mice diets that were either heavy in carbohydrates (starch) or in sugar. Among the mice that were fed a starchy diet, 30 per cent developed breast cancer within six months. Yes, that’s high ? but not compared to the nearly 60 per cent of mice that were fed a sugary diet and that ended up with breast cancer.

And the more sugar they ate, the bigger the tumours grew.

Even if you’re not literally eating spoonfuls of sugar like these mice did, sucrose (table sugar) can be found in the most unexpected food products in your kitchen cabinets… low-fat milk… cold meats? ketchup? crisps?

While all sugars helped make the tumours grow and spread, the researchers said that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was the main culprit when it came to spurring on the growth of the tumours.

And that’s scary, especially since HFCS is one of Big Food’s favourite sweetening agents ? it can be found in thousands of products… even supposedly healthy ones.

If you want to dodge the breast cancer bullet, the answer is simple: dump the fizzy drinks and stick to a low-carb diet with animal protein, vegetables, and healthy fats, like olive oil and butter.

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Sources:

“Sugar in fizzy drinks and junk food increase chances of breast cancer,” The Daily Mail, Jan. 1, 2016, dailymail.co.uk