article_snippet: The inevitable consequence is that manufacturers increase other ingredients, including sugar, to recreate taste and texture.'
article_snippet: The theory is that glucose, one of the main ingredients in added sugar, creates repeated spikes of insulin.
article_snippet: For reasons that are not clear, many tumours seem to have insulin receptors, hence a rise in this hormone fuels many tumours growth.
article_snippet: There are also specific taste receptors for sugar, which if sugar intake is gradually reduced, become more sensitive.
article_snippet: So over time we don’t notice that sugar levels have gone down.'