SAMA HOOLE: Starve the tumour of sugar while healthy cells switch contentedly to fat, the theory goes, and you have a line of attack with no hair falling out and no poison in the drip.

Thomas N. Seyfried.

from Sama Hoole,

Cancer cells gorge on glucose and an amino acid called glutamine. The fuel they struggle to run on is ketones, the very fuel a body makes once you strip the carbohydrate away. Starve the tumour of sugar while healthy cells switch contentedly to fat, the theory goes, and you have a line of attack with no hair falling out and no poison in the drip.