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The annoyance of a veteran foodie
The better the nutrition, the faster the tumor will grow?
Mr. Wang is a veteran food lover, but recently, his mouth has been "wronged". 1 month ago, Mr. Wang had surgery because of the tumor, and in the postoperative rehabilitation stage, Mr. Wang listened to the patients around him and said that it was easy to eat too well and easily fatten the "tumor cells again", which could scare Mr. Wang. "It was not easy to treat the tumor with surgery, and if it recurs, you will have to suffer another sin."
After that, Mr. Wang began to strictly control his diet, once he often followed the "Hanger Wind" to various streets and alleys to search for food, now the salt oil does not enter, only eat a few bites, in order to "starve" the tumor, in order to prevent recurrence. Two weeks later, Mr. Wang's weight dropped by 8 pounds, and he thought that he was "properly controlled", but he did not expect that when he was reviewed, he was judged by the doctor to be malnourished.
"Some people think that not eating can make tumor cells grow without energy and then starve to death, which is a wrong view." Zhang Bianhong, director of the Department of Nutrition of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University, said: "Through hunger, it will not only cause insufficient nutrition in the body, but also reduce its own immunity and increase the risk of infection. ”
Does nutrition really "feed the tumor"?
Tumor cells are abnormal cells that divide, grow, and "steal" nutrients from normal cells in the body, which can harness the body's nutrients.
The "hunger therapy" will cause insufficient nutrition in the body, affect the growth and protection of normal cells in the body, reduce autoimmunity, and increase the risk of infection. Malnutrition has a greater impact on the body's normal cells, and if it is nourished to prevent tumors at the expense of normal tissues, the end result may be the same. Studies have shown that good nutrition can help patients reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, improve the tolerance to treatment and the quality of life of patients.
Eat less sugar and strategically "starve" the tumor
Maintaining a suitable, relatively stable weight is important for oncology patients, and if weight loss is greater than 5%, there is a possible risk of malnutrition, which can affect physical function and clinical outcomes. How to make the tumor "eat" badly while ensuring nutrition?
Tumor cells mainly provide their own energy through sugars, and the utilization of fat is poor. Therefore, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can be used as an option for patients with tumors, based on the principle of both ensuring nutritional balance and selectively starving tumor cells. In the daily diet of patients with cancer during the rehabilitation period, we should pay attention to the diversity of food, reasonable collocation, and consume 20 to 30 kinds of food per day, 2/3 of which are plant foods and 1/3 of which are animal foods.
Big supplement special supplement? Be careful to make up for mistakes!
In addition to "dieting" tumor patients, there are also some patients who feel that their bodies are weak after surgery and need food supplements, so they begin to drink various health soups.
"We often see strange scenes of patients drinking soup and family members eating dregs. In fact, most of the food nutrition is not in the soup. Director Zhang Katahong said. According to scientific tests, the nutrition of soup is only 5% to 10% of the raw materials, mainly some vitamins, inorganic salts, and most of the nutrients (especially protein) are left in the slag. Therefore, it is recommended that patients can eat as much soup as possible and eat together with slag, unless the digestion ability is poor, the disease limit can not eat slag, then you have to drink soup.
There are also many patients who list many foods such as roosters, hens, or konjac and coriander as hair objects, which is actually incorrect. It is recommended that all tumor patients, chicken, eggs, including seafood foods, as long as they are not allergic, can eat, do not choke on food.
The limit should be limited, and these foods should be eaten less!
Cancer patients should avoid malnutrition and eat a rich diet, but this does not mean that everything can be eaten. During the rehabilitation phase, the following types of foods should be avoided:
Sugary drinks
High-capacity density foods: such as dessert hearts, sweets, sausages, fatty meats, fried foods
Processed meat: ham, sausage, bacon, it is recommended to replace part of the red meat with soy products and white meat
Oversalized and salted processed foods: such as pickles, pickles, and bacon
Tobacco and alcohol: be sure to quit smoking, try to quit alcohol, alcoholic beverages should be limited to 2 servings per day for adult men, 1 serving per day for adult women (1 serving of alcohol contains about 10-15 grams of ethanol)
Good nutritional status is important for cancer patients who require surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Both the tumor itself and anti-tumor therapy have a great impact on the patient's diet and body energy metabolism, which can reduce the patient's nutritional level, so taking appropriate nutritional therapy is crucial for tumor patients. Reasonable nutritional therapy can enable patients to maintain physical strength, maintain weight, and feel comfortable, improve patients' tolerance to anti-tumor treatment, and reduce the occurrence of infection.
Dietary Cancer Prevention Guidelines During Convalescent Periods
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