Irrationality in Hospital's Food Menu

I haven't researched much on the subject of hospital's menu for cancer patients yet, but I'd like to write a little bit from what I know as of today. To start, I'd like to point out a few facts:

• Refined sugars raise the insulin level in the blood
• Insulin promotes tumor growth 

Role of insulin: you secrete insulin in response to the foods you eat — particularly the carbohydrates — to keep blood sugar in control after a meal. Insulin takes the sugar out of the blood bring it into the cells.  When you eat refined carbohydrates, including table sugar, the level of blood glucose rises and the pancreas need to pump out more and more insulin to keep up with the demand. And it is known today that insulin promotes tumor growth and therefore, the more insulin in the blood, better changes the cancer cells has to grow and multiply. With that in mind, let me share with you the menu for a cancer patient at a hospital shown in one of my nutrition classes:





Needless to say that this menu shouldn't even be given to a healthy person, moreover to a sick patient. The chocolate syrup on top the the ice-cream and the instant pudding, most of all, are what is outraging me in this menu. Don't doctors and nutritionists know that sugar fuel cancer cells? That a high fat and high protein diet acidify the blood and cancer cells only grow in an acidic environment? Don't they know that fresh fruits and vegetables help making the blood more alkaline? Don't they know that whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants that help fight cancer producing cells? So how come they could come up with a menu like that? Ins't that so irrational?

Does this menu, by any mean support the fact that tumors feed on sugar and therefore, to kill the tumor, a sugar-free diet is more appropriate to help combat the cancer?

Their justification for this type of menu full of sugar, dairy, saturated fat and highly processed foods is that cancer patients need a very high caloric and high protein diet. Because, most of the time, they lose weight and suffer adverse side effects from the chemo and radiotherapy, such as nausea and vomiting and consequently lack hunger or desire to eat. So nutritionists try to maximize calories and nutrients (I don't know where the nutrients are in a instant pudding) in one meal so the patients get enough nutrition. That's why they love preparing milkshakes, protein shakes and smoothies because they can add all kinds of powders to them. Unfortunately, that is the way nutritionists are taught in school to be the best way to treat cancer patients.

I'll have to quote the professor so you guys have a lot to reflect on during the weekend: "cancer patients need high caloric diets, so it's not time for diet soda". Are you kidding me?