Therefore, it is an important part of cancer treatment to make up for the body's consumption with enough nutrition, enhance the patient's physique and improve the quality of life. However, in every friend's daily life, many cancer patients around him have fallen into a dietary misunderstanding.
Myth 1: Drink more soup to supplement nutrition.
Traditionally, making soup is a "tonic", such as black-bone chicken soup, oxtail soup, fish soup, sea cucumber soup, trotter soup and so on. The essence is dissolved in the soup, and the soup can be drunk, and the soup residue can be discarded.
In fact, there are few nutrients in the soup. Fish ingredients, soup only contains non-protein nitrogen, purine, creatinine, a small amount of free amino acids, and a small amount of plasma of potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, so the nutritional density is low. Therefore, making soup is not a good source of human nutrition.
Drinking a lot of soup, even if you only drink enough soup, will also affect eating other foods. A single diet can lead to malnutrition.
If tumor patients really need to eat liquid food because of eating difficulties, fever or long-term bed rest, all kinds of food (grain, egg milk, meat fish, bean products, vegetables, etc. ) Cook until soft. ) are respectively crushed, and then crushed by a soymilk machine, a blender and the like. Make it into paste and cook it into porridge, which is not only easy to swallow but also beneficial to digestion and absorption.
Myth 2: The better you eat, the faster the tumor grows.
Some malnourished tumor patients are mainly vegetarian. They think that "if you have a tumor, you can't eat too nutritious food, otherwise the tumor will grow faster".
In fact, the growth rate of tumor cells has nothing to do with how much nutrition patients eat. Even if the patient is malnourished, cancer cells will rob the body of nutrition and continue to grow. Hunger will only make the patient's body consume faster and accelerate the deterioration of the disease.
According to the research results of the American Cancer Society, the dietary calories of cancer patients should be increased by at least 20% than usual; At present, there is no evidence that increasing human nutrition will make cancer cells grow faster, but many patients live a long time because of good nutrition.
Patients with good nutritional status are obviously better than those with poor nutritional status and emaciation in terms of treatment tolerance and prognosis. There is no scientific basis for saying that cancer cells can starve to death.
Meat, fish, eggs, milk and bean products are the main sources of high-quality protein and important raw materials for tissue and cell repair.
Myth 3: "Hair growth" makes cancer relapse, and vegetarianism is better.
The so-called "hairy things" are ancient folk sayings, such as bean sprouts, leeks, alfalfa, geese, chickens, dog meat, beef and seafood. Although many patients want to eat, they are afraid of causing tumor recurrence, so they stay away.
But there is not enough evidence to prove that eating these "hair products" will lead to tumor recurrence. So far, there have been no cases of tumor recurrence caused by eating "hair products". So there is no scientific basis for not eating hair products.
Myth 4: blindly rely on "anti-cancer food" and health care products
Many cancer patients exchange dietary experience with each other during treatment, blindly imitating others' practices, such as spending a lot of money on some so-called anti-cancer foods and anti-cancer health products. Are these reliable?
Some nutrients or phytochemicals have anti-cancer effects, and natural foods also play a role. The extracted nutrients and some phytochemicals, as "anti-cancer food" and "health care products", have no evidence to prove that they can effectively fight cancer.
What's more, it is a serious mistake to spend a high price on so-called anti-cancer foods while ignoring a normal, balanced and reasonable diet.
Myth 5: Avoid spicy food.
In the eyes of some "health experts", it seems to be a strict rule to avoid spicy food, regardless of men, women and children, regardless of health or not.
But even if you have cancer, eating spicy food is not so terrible.
Many areas in China are famous for eating spicy food, but the incidence and mortality of tumors are not higher than those in other areas. There is no basis for spicy food to stimulate tumor growth.
Many patients have an appetite only if they eat spicy food. After they get a tumor, the tumor itself and radiotherapy and chemotherapy will cause loss of appetite. And because "spicy food is forbidden", I have no appetite and it is not good for recovery.
These "spicy tastes" will increase the appetite of patients, stimulate the secretion of digestive juice and help them eat. Too light is meaningless.
Myth 6: You can inject nutrients, but you can skip meals.
When cancer patients lose appetite and can't eat anything, some patients and their families think that intravenous nutrition can also meet their needs.
It is a natural state for people to eat through the gastrointestinal tract, and food enters the intestine for absorption. If they don't eat for a long time, the intestinal mucosa will shrink, leading to imbalance of intestinal flora, destruction of the barrier function of intestinal mucosa and easy infection.
No matter what causes you to eat, as long as the intestinal function is normal, you can find ways to send food to the intestinal tract to absorb nutrition, such as inserting a stomach tube.
all in all
In fact, it is not only tumors that cause taboos, but also many other diseases, which is also an unfounded "traditional concept".
A balanced diet can make the body feel good, maintain physical strength and energy, reduce the side effects of treatment, reduce the risk of infection, and achieve the goal of faster recovery.