Should cancer patients avoid food or not?
Should cancer patients avoid food or not?
The question of avoiding food often makes cancer patients very worried, for fear that eating wrongly will lead to tumor recurrence.
The specific conditions of patients are different, and it is not possible to say that there is no need to avoid food, nor can we avoid this and that, but we have to consider whether or not to avoid food according to the patient's condition, nutritional status, and comorbidities. What are the things to avoid?

The external causes of cancer formation include lifestyle, environment, biological infection and dietary habits, etc. Most of the cancers closely related to diet are digestive system tumors, while lung cancer, thyroid cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, etc. are not very much related to diet, so there is no need to worry too much about dietary taboos.
Most of the advanced cancer patients are malnourished, as long as there is no discomfort, or no special requirements, can eat some more on some, to increase nutrition, there is no need to abstain from food. Some patients like to eat spicy stimulation, pickled, smoked, fried and fried food to enhance the appetite can eat more also, other flavor light things patients eat less.

When the patient's nutritional status is normal during the recovery period, he/she still needs to control his/her mouth in some cases, and it is better not to eat what he/she can't eat. For example, after the surgery of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer and other digestive tract tumors, eating spicy and stimulating food may cause discomfort, and may affect the anastomosis, and pickled, fried and grilled food is a "cancer-promoting" factor for digestive system tumors, which should be avoided.
Postmenopausal breast cancer and obesity correlation is relatively large, maintain a reasonable weight to help reduce recurrence of metastasis, it is necessary to avoid high-fat, animal high-protein food, not completely can not eat, to be less.
Tobacco and alcohol count as imports, don't they? It's something that must be avoided!

Many people are very concerned about "hairy things", what is "hairy things"? There are different concepts of "hairy things" in different places, from peppers, chili peppers, onions, ginger and garlic, mushrooms, leeks, cilantro to chicken, duck, fish, mutton and beef, and then seafood in the water, there are various kinds of various kinds of things, can these things promote the "hairy" tumors? There is no basis, and taboo harsh, the patient can not eat anything, what will be the result?
If a patient has an allergy to certain foods, they can't eat them, which may be the concept of "food", but no one else can eat them either, right?
In short, cancer patients have different conditions, some should be avoided, some do not need to avoid, avoidance is unhealthy diet, there is no need to be overly harsh avoidance, may affect the nutritional status! I am @Dr. Liu Yongyi , thank you for reading!
It really is a big misconception that tumor patients avoid food. Doctors advocate a balanced diet, and generally do not specify that a certain food must not be eaten. As the saying goes, there is no such thing as bad food, but too much of it is a disaster. It is really misleading to say that you can't eat this and you can't eat that.
In addition to contraindications, there are several misconceptions about the diet of tumor patients.
The first misconception, it is also related to the taboo. That is to believe that a certain kind of food can prevent or cure cancer, so he eats that kind of food every day, which is also a misconception.
The second misunderstanding, believe in some unique therapies, believe in divine doctors and divine medicines, where there are divine doctors and divine medicines, there is no some secret formula, where there is a secret formula, there is no secret formula.
The third misconception, vegetarianism. Many people with sugar tumors should not eat more meat, and should be mainly vegetarian. This is also wrong. For tumor patients, a combination of meat and vegetables is ideal, we generally about one-third meat, two-thirds vegetarian, tumor patients, with special emphasis, is to advocate increased intake of fruits and vegetables, and hopefully five servings per day.
What is the concept of five servings? For example, if you want two or two vegetables a day to count as one serving, it's one pound of vegetables, or five fruits, an apple, an orange, a banana all count as one serving, you add it up to five servings, so you can make sure. Because by supplementing your phytochemicals with vegetables and fruits, this is good for the tumor patient.
In addition, for the question of intake, it is not advocated that tumor patients eat too much. Seventy to ninety percent full is optimal, for all tumor patients.
Finally, since tumors rely on sugar for nutritional support, patients with tumors, especially those with tumor lesions and metastases, are advised to minimize sugar intake and reduce carbohydrate intake (rice or noodles), while increasing fat and protein intake, especially protein, as appropriate.
Personally, I don't think cancer should be avoided when it's a terminal illness!
I think cancer patients should avoid eating, stimulating food can not eat, alcohol, spicy food can not eat, the old people in the life of the hair, vegetables also have hair.
First, you need to avoid eating animal offal, meat, alcohol and desserts.,moldy and spoiled foodThese foods can easily lead to malfunctioning of qi and blood and cancer, as well as regular eating and not overeating.A light diet such as grains, fruits and vegetables is suitable.
Secondly, the consumption of fried food will also affect health and increase the prevalence of cancer. Under the same treatment conditions, the prognosis of lung cancer patients who frequently consume fried food or pickled food is poorer. In addition, stomach cancer and intestinal cancer have a great relationship with diet. Therefore, cancer patients must avoid eating.
Let's be honest there are few cures for cancer, think about it and eat what you like.
Cancer is related to many factors, especially diet, and a good diet is quite important for cancer patients. So should cancer patients avoid eating?
Folk often say hairy things such as seafood, eggs, beef and lamb, chicken, etc., many cancer patients are afraid to eat, basically every day is to eat porridge, vegetables and other food, a little meat and fish are not, not to mention that the cancer is not cured, the body can not afford to eat, eat and fear of cancer recurrence, in the end, can you eat?
Cancer patients themselves should maintain adequate nutrition, and if they keep abstaining from eating, their bodies will be even less well nourished and their immunity will begin to decline.
Fever is generally allergic to people can not eat, if the cancer patients are allergic to a certain kind of food that is best not to eat, like the former said that those fever can actually eat, but the diet must be moderate, high-fat, high-calorie or to eat less for the better. You can eat more high protein food.
These three types of foods should be off limits for cancer patients
Tobacco and alcohol:Alcohol and nicotine are both class 1 carcinogens and can be very damaging to the human body, so if you have a habit of smoking and drinking, it is recommended to quit.
Fried, greasy, high-fat foods:Some foods that are fried and high in fat are very irritating to the gut and must be avoided.
Spicy and stimulating foods:Harsh foods are very irritating to the digestive tract and should be avoided by cancer patients.
There is a certain need for abstinence, but the sludge is hard, the
Taboo for sure.
But if you're in the middle of a treatment and you want to eat a little bit, you should.
There's nothing wrong with it, is there?
Before, when I was on chemo and vomiting and didn't want to eat anything, I thought of eating white porridge with a little squash.
I also asked the doctor, who said that if you don't eat anything, you're not getting any more nutrients.
Sometimes when you're on chemo, you can't eat and you'll eat a little bit
There's no absolutes for a lot of things, either.
Stimulants, barbecues, and pickles are definitely a no-no.
No spicy food
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