Doc Talk: Starving cancer cells to death by fasting: Truth or myth?

Fasting may, in theory, provoke normal cells to switch to a protected mode to guard themselves against the stress. PHOTO: UNSPLASH
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SINGAPORE - Have you come across this one? Eating food high in nutrition will feed cancer cells in the body and accelerate their growth, adding fuel to fire.

In contrast, fasting starves cancer cells.

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