Taboo is a common problem for most cancer patients. In particular, there are many sayings circulating in society, such as "no chicken", "no crab" and "no egg", which make patients and their families timid and at a loss. The nutritional problems of cancer patients are directly related to the therapeutic effect, which should be paid necessary attention by all parties. On the one hand, cancer patients suffer more pain and consume more energy and material than normal people; On the other hand, nutritional support helps to ensure that the treatment plan can be carried out as planned. Therefore, during surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the taste and appetite of cancer patients may decrease to some extent, and the digestive tract function may temporarily be abnormal. At this time, the patient's diet should work hard on color, fragrance and taste. What you can eat when your appetite is poor is nutrition, which is conducive to the recovery of physical fitness; When you have a good appetite, you should control high-fat foods.
Why should patients eat less high-fat food?
Epidemiologists have found that foods in areas with high incidence of breast cancer generally contain a lot of fat and animal protein. For example, the content of fat and animal protein in American food is three times that in Japanese food, so the incidence of breast cancer in Americans is three times that in Japan. In Japan, the incidence of breast cancer among wealthy women is 8.5 times that of poor women. Therefore, breast cancer patients, especially obese patients, advocate vegetarianism in the later stage.
What food do you eat? How to eat healthily?
Beta carotene, vitamin C, cellulose, potassium, calcium and magnesium all have the function of protecting breasts. In order to prevent the occurrence of breast cancer, nutritionists warn people to eat the following foods that are beneficial to breast health while limiting the high-fat diet. The staple food should include wheat (flour), corn, soybean, milk and its products and some miscellaneous grains; Vegetables include carrots, garlic, onions, asparagus, pumpkins, cucumbers, cool melons, loofah, tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, radishes and some vegetables. Fish include soft-shelled turtle, loach, yellow croaker, hairtail, oyster, sea cucumber, octopus, squid, kelp, agar and other seafood.
Nutritional immunologists suggest that if you can eat more than 15 kinds of plants every day, your immune function will be better from the perspective of diet. Advantages of omnivorous food: on the positive side, you can take in various nutrients in a balanced way; On the negative side, if there is something wrong with that kind of food, it can avoid causing great harm because of small intake.
Get out of the common misunderstanding of health knowledge
1. I believe that as long as the tumor is removed, the problem can be solved.
Fruit is a snack, but you can eat it or not.
Fruit contains minerals that are necessary for human body but cannot be synthesized, vitamins with strong antioxidant effect and cell aging prevention, and soluble fiber-pectin, which can obviously reduce the concentration of cholesterol in blood and is very beneficial to human health.