keeping salt and sugar at bay

The problem isn't sugar per se. Indeed the body requires sugar in order to function. I'm sure that anyone reading this will be aware of something called the 'Sugar Rush', which can be experienced subsequent to consumption of a bar of chocolate or a bag of sweeties. 

The sugar rush triggers an excessive release of insulin from the pancreas. In this sense refined sugar can be considered akin to rocket fuel. Because it is so refined, there is more carbohydrate density than the body can efficiently deal with, and so it is sent for storage as fat. It has many different names on packages of food ... fructose, sucrose, glucose, etc. For half of all Americans, the average consumption of refined sugar, through various sources, is 80 kilograms per year. I don't think we're far behind them. Here in the U.K. I see more and more waistlines bulging.

I have now completely eradicated refined sugars from my diet. Some sources claim that refined sugar is more addictive than cocaine, and certainly extreme physical withdrawal symptoms can be felt when the body is deprived of it. 

Cancer cells are normal cells which have become aloof from the harmonious interplay of energies in the body. Instead of a normal metabolism, they multiply by the process of fermentation, and as any good brewer knows, fermentation requires sugar for fuel. The more concentrated the source, the happier the cancer cell in its activity. Thus the importance of cutting out all refined sugar as part of the protocol when dealing with cancer. 

Cancer is mentioned in the sixth minute of the following presentation as just one of the deleterious effects that refined sugar is instrumental in producing.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGS3jdjJGE

Salt is another thing to avoid. Not as easy as you might think. It too, along with sugar, is found in most processed foods, and excessive amounts in many. When food is preserved, quite often salt is added. Salt prevents the oxidation that would result in the food's degradation. Consider the situation when large quantities of salt enter the cells. It then interferes with the oxidative process which is a part of the cells' natural metabolism. At a certain point the cell becomes overloaded, toxic, leading to disease.

And so, to replace the salt in the cells of the body, the ingestion of large amounts of potassium is necessary; this is found in fresh vegetables. Something that Max Gerson discovered over his many years of dealing with cancer patients.