section_path: Health effects/Cancer
section_name: Cancer
paragraph_text: Cancer
  
  Sugar consumption does not cause cancer. Cancer Council Australia have stated that "there is no evidence that consuming sugar makes cancer cells grow faster or cause cancer". There is an indirect relationship between sugar consumption and obesity-related cancers through increased risk of excess body weight.
  
  The American Institute for Cancer Research and World Cancer Research Fund recommend that people limit sugar consumption.
  
  There is a popular misconception that cancer can be treated by reducing sugar and carbohydrate intake to supposedly "starve" tumours. In reality, the health of people with cancer is best served by maintaining a healthy diet.