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Calorie restriction might be a way to prevent cancer, but involuntary calorie restriction is something many cancer patients have to deal with and it certainly d
by 01100011 6y ago
Calorie restriction might be a way to prevent cancer, but involuntary calorie restriction is something many cancer patients have to deal with and it certainly does not cure cancer. My grandma managed to live quite a while with advanced pancreatic cancer which caused severe caloric restriction, but in the end the cancer won.
- quattrofan 6y agoAnd the article does comment on this
- bbarnett 6y agoI had the same issue with my father, and I've often wondered ; was this a response by the body, which knew that eating was "feeding the enemy"? My father literally could not eat. Tried, but simply could not. I found this utterly bizarre, and yet, it is mirrored by so many others with cancer. It is not a lack of appetite, for I can eat when bored yet not actively hungry. It is instead, not just a negation of appetite, but an active repulsion of food intake. And something I've not heard of for other diseases.