I am sorry to hear about your aunt. However, as a person who know many people who are currently battling, have lost battles and have won battles to cancer i know that blaming an entire disease (especially one so complex as breast cancer) on one improper lifestyle is not helpful to anyone. it is very unlikely that your aunt's demise was based solely on coke. I'll bite, however, coke is certainly not good for you. But if breast cancer is due to people drinking coke, then how can it be that so many coca cola drinkers go on to lead long healthy lives and that there are breast cancer sufferers that have never consumed a coke or hardly ever do. Cancer has little to do with sugar consumption. If anything, sugar can be helpful to patients undergoing chemo and radiation treatment because it is easy on the stomach and a complete loss of appetite is common for chemo patients. The quotes that you are citing are very poorly worded and written, which makes me believe that they're source is not a completely reliable one. Please dont make outrageous claims and preach false information (or inadequate information) when people come on this board who are actually seeking help.
As for the person who said the body does not need sugar to survive? The brain's preferred source of energy is sugar.
If you do not eat enough sugar or carbohydrates your liver start to produce ketone bodies which are soluble fats that the cells of the body can use as fuel. The brain can use these but the high acidity of these compounds results in acidic blood, which is not a condition you want you're body to be in. While your brain cells can function on ketones, it doest not prefer them and therefore does not work optimally when they are its main source of fuel, as in a no or low carb diet. As a result i think you will find some starving people, extreme dieters or low carbers seem a little "not all there."
To the person who asked what kind of carbs are good for you and how much sugar is too much. I like to stick with the rule of: try to limit servings of food with sugar as the first or second ingredient to one or less a day and substitute all white or processed breads, pastas and grain for whole wheat and whole grain. Try to make sure all the source of carbs you eat are 4g or fibre or more per serving. Thsi helps stabilize blood glucose levels because it slows carb absorption from your intestines.
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