Kuala Lampur, April 9 -- I am going to put this out there because I am very tired of people who have never had cancer giving me this same piece of advice.

If you guessed "avoid sugar", correct.

The next person who tells me to do that I will personally buy a box of doughnuts just to pelt you with, so you had better show up to my house so I can get some arm exercise.

If you do not feel like having your face being used as a doughnut dart board, perhaps read the MD Anderson explainer on why cancer patients do not need to abstain from sugar to get well.

My tiredness has increased as well as my aversion towards food.

Everything tastes as though someone has dropped an entire bottle of liquid paracetamol into my food so I rarely am able to f...