In Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Iran, Palestine and Saudi Arabia, sugar consumption, known as enemy number one of cancer, is quite high. The surprising thing at this point is How these regions consume more sugar and get less cancer.

So what’s behind this? What kind of secret is hidden?

Worldwide, an average of 198 out of 100,000 people suffer from various types of cancer.

The region with the highest number of cancer cases in the world, Australia with 468 inhabitants per 100,000. Ireland is in second place with 374 inhabitants per 100,000. This list is followed by Hungary with 368 people and the US with 352 people.

If we look at this percentage specifically for the countries in the Middle East, While 96 out of 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia have cancer, In Yemen, 97 out of 100,000 people struggle with this disease. This number; It is limited to 107 in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, 104 in Oman and 116 in Kuwait.

What makes the Middle East unique in this regard?

30 days of fasting with the arrival of Ramadan Surprisingly, it is very effective against cancer. This act of worship, which involves not eating or drinking anything from sunrise to sunset, can also be considered a form of intermittent fasting.

This causes an incredible drop in cancer rates. Because it is in cancer cells compared to normal cells There are 10 to 50 times more insulin receptors and they are quite greedy for glucose. In short, cancer loves sugar and fasting prevents this sugar intake.

Fasting also stimulates autophagy, which contributes to mitochondrial recycling and helps recycle damaged and outdated proteins.

Cancer disease basically occurs when the mitochondria are damaged. When mitochondria are damaged, their own metabolic system has difficulty adapting to new ways of providing energy for high glucose levels. also fasting This is very effective in destroying damaged mitochondria. and thus the risk of cancer is reduced.

Another contribution of fasting is that it produces new immune cells.

While this new cell formation strengthens the immune system, increase in the number of T cells known to kill cancer and viruses It also allows it. Another contribution of fasting is that it provides a kind of cleansing of the inflammation that cancer tends to spread and wants to achieve.

Fasting is the most powerful anti-inflammatory and therefore reduces the risk of cancer spreading. In addition, the number of antioxidant networks increases when no food or drink enters our body. In summary, fasting significantly reduces the risk of cancer.

In addition to fasting, the herbs that Middle Eastern people consume are also very important in terms of cancer.

After all, it shouldn’t be dismissed as just a spice. For example Turmeric is the number one cancer prevention and the most powerful and preferred food to fight inflammation. In addition, saffron also contains some phytonutrients and is an enemy of cancer.

Spices such as cardamom, cumin, nutmeg, cinnamon and coriander are among the foods that best fight cancer and tumors. Again black cumin, dill, olive oil, sesame and dates It is one of the foods rich in content that fights cancer.

People from the Middle East, In general, he really likes spices. And this way of eating makes them very beneficial when it comes to cancer.

In third place are cigarettes.

As we all know, smoking has a major link with cancer. About getting cancer; smokers, 22 times riskier than non-smokers and even 25% of cancer cases are caused by smoking.

1 in 5 people in the world smoke cigarettes, and this percentage represents 20% of the entire world population. The smoking rate among men in Middle Eastern countries is quite high, but Surprisingly, this number is quite low for women.

Women consider This percentage stands at 2% in Arabia, 3% in Iraq and Kuwait, and 9% in Yemen. In the United Arab Emirates, for example, only 8 in 1,000 women smoke. This number is quite low compared to the world average of 20%. In short, if Middle Eastern women do not smoke, it largely protects them from cancer.

When it comes to cigarettes, it is impossible not to mention alcohol.

Alcohol consumption affects the liver; It causes cancerous formations in the back of the tongue, upper part of the mouth and larynx. Alcohol consumption is not permitted in most Middle Eastern countries. and the risk of developing cancer in the mentioned parts of the body from alcohol is quite low.

Western Europe, Northern Europe and North America are regions where alcohol consumption is high and the people here; There is a high risk of liver, larynx and oral cancer.

So Middle Eastern people who fast, consume all these beneficial herbs, smoke and drink very little alcohol, but why isn’t their cancer rate even lower?

The reason for this, is that they consume more sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup, than anywhere else in the world. As we mentioned earlier, cancer loves sugar and causes obesity. On average, 30% of people in the Middle East also suffer from obesity.

These people too 80% have very low vitamin D levels. This vitamin is very important in protecting against cancer and reducing the risk of this disease. Here too, sugar consumption and vitamin D deficiency are proportional to each other. The more sugar there is in the body, the less vitamin D there is.

However, they are less likely to get cancer That doesn’t mean they are healthier. They can be vulnerable to various diseases due to various factors. For example, the cancer rate in Japan is higher, but life expectancy is much longer.