# OnCo record warburg-effect-diet-claims (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/terms/warburg-effect-diet-claims/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "warburg-effect-diet-claims" ;
  schema:name "Warburg-effect diet claims ('sugar feeds cancer')"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Sugar feeds cancer"@en, "Starve the tumour"@en ;
  schema:description "Cancer cells take up far more glucose than normal tissue (the Warburg effect, the basis of FDG-PET scans), which leads people to conclude that cutting sugar starves tumours. The biology is real but the conclusion is not: blood glucose is tightly regulated, tumours also burn glutamine, lactate and fat, and no randomised trial shows sugar restriction improves cancer outcomes."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/warburg-effect-diet-claims/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2904886> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ketogenic-diet-glioblastoma/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/fasting-mimicking-diet/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultra-processed-food-ssb/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/metabolic-therapy/> ;
  onco:pathways <https://onco.cc/terms/deregulating-cellular-energetics/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/warburg-effect/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/unproven-diet-claims/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/glycaemic-index/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/> .