Editing Sugar (section)

=== Cancer ===

Sugar consumption does not directly cause cancer.<ref name="Australia">{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Does sugar cause cancer?|url=https://www.cancer.org.au/iheard/does-sugar-cause-cancer|website=Cancer Council Australia|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328003849/https://www.cancer.org.au/iheard/does-sugar-cause-cancer|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Does Sugar Cause Cancer?|url=https://www.cancer.net/blog/2021-11/does-sugar-cause-cancer|website=American Society of Clinical Oncology|language=en-GB|archive-date=1 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001021316/https://www.cancer.net/blog/2021-11/does-sugar-cause-cancer}}</ref><ref name="CRUK">{{Cite web|date=2023|title=Sugar and cancer – what you need to know|url=https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/16/sugar-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know/|website=Cancer Research UK|language=en-GB|archive-date=6 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106023109/https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/16/sugar-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Cancer Council Australia]] have stated that "there is no evidence that consuming sugar makes cancer cells grow faster or cause cancer".<ref name="Australia"/> There is an indirect relationship between sugar consumption and obesity-related cancers through increased risk of excess body weight.<ref name="CRUK"/><ref name="Australia"/><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016|title=The Sugar and Cancer Connection|url=https://www.aicr.org/news/the-sugar-cancer-connection/|website=American Institute for Cancer Research|language=en-GB|archive-date=20 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120123107/https://www.aicr.org/news/the-sugar-cancer-connection/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[American Institute for Cancer Research]] and [[World Cancer Research Fund]] recommend that people limit sugar consumption.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015|title=Curbing global sugar consumption|url=https://www.wcrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Curbing-global-sugar-consumption.pdf|website=World Cancer Research Fund International|language=en-GB|archive-date=29 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329020750/https://www.wcrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Curbing-global-sugar-consumption.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors= Clinton SK, Giovannucci EL, Hursting SD|year=2020|title=The World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Third Expert Report on Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Cancer: Impact and Future Directions|journal=The Journal of Nutrition|volume=150|issue=4|pages=663–671|doi=10.1093/jn/nxz268|pmid=31758189|pmc=7317613}}</ref>

There is a popular misconception that cancer can be treated by reducing sugar and carbohydrate intake to supposedly "starve" tumours. In reality, the health of people with cancer is best served by maintaining a [[healthy diet]].<ref name=mis>{{cite journal |vauthors=Grimes DR, O'Riordan E |title=Starving cancer and other dangerous dietary misconceptions |journal=Lancet Oncol |volume=24 |issue=11 |pages=1177–1178 |date=November 2023 |pmid=37922928 |doi=10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00483-7 |url=}}</ref>