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Fact-check: Eating a no-sugar diet does not cause cancer cells to 'die naturally' Listen Eating a no-sugar diet does not cause cancer cells to 'die naturally'. Photo: AFP A Thai-language Facebook post claims that eating a sugar-free diet will cause cancer cells to "die naturally". The misleading post, which also claims that hot lemon water and coconut oil cure cancer, has been shared tens of thousands of times. Similar misleading claims have circulated in social media posts from Africa to the United States. But the claims are all false; numerous doctors, cancer charities, and scientific studies all say that eating a sugar-free diet, drinking hot lemon water, and taking spoonfuls of coconut oil are not cures for cancer. The post was published  here  on a Thailand-based Facebook page on July 8, 2019, where it has been shared more than 39,000 times. The lengthy Thai-language caption translates to English in part as: “#howdocancerpatientsd

USA, China, Japan and Korea to dominate 5G: study Listen China, the United States, Japan and Korea will account for more than half of the world’s subscribers to super-fast 5G mobile networks by 2025, leaving Europe lagging, a study showed on Thursday. Europe, moving more slowly to build 5G networks, will lag in terms of consumer take-up. Yet the picture looks different in business, where 5G will be able to run ‘smart’ factories using connected robots, devices and sensors. “It’s going to be a small cluster of countries that leads adoption in 5G, with the rest of the world following,” Tim Hatt, head of research at GSMA Intelligence, told Reuters. “China, Japan, Korea and the US  – between those, you’re looking at well over half of worldwide 5G subscribers by 2025.” The rapid rollout of 5G networks, with speeds fast enough to download a movie to a smartphone in seconds, has surprised many. Nokia, the world’s No.2 network vendor behind Huawei, recently suspe