New Delhi, June 30 -- There is a growing belief that sugar feeds cancer. Because of this, many people think that completely stopping sugar and carbohydrates can starve cancer cells and help defeat the disease. Is that the truth?

Dr Mandeep Singh Malhotra, Director of Oncosciences at CK Birla Hospital, New Delhi, warns about the side effects of this trend. He emphasises that this half-truth is becoming dangerous for many patients, making it harder for patients to cope with the side effects of chemotherapy.

"This fact is not entirely unscientific, but it is incomplete. In 1924, the German scientist Otto Warburg found that cancer cells consume more glucose than normal cells. This phenomenon is known as the Warburg Effect. This finding has ...