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What can you eat? What can’t you eat? Faced with certain diets, cancer patients are always entangled, can they eat them? How to eat will be better~ Today Huzhu Jun sorted out the answers to the doubts about the diet of cancer patients. In the face of these foods, cancer patients need to pay attention!
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1. Don’t touch these five cancer-prone foods again!
Food and cancer are also inextricably linked. Which foods on the family table can cause cancer? You must have seen these common cancer-causing foods!
1. Processed meat
That is, cured meat, salted fish, sausage, ham, bacon, hot dogs, etc., these processed foods that can be stored for a long time contain some common carcinogens, such as nitrite, which can easily cause digestion tract tumors. Cooking meat at high temperature will also produce two carcinogens, heterocyclic aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
2. Wine and alcoholic drinks
Alcohol is ranked third after smoking and obesity. We can control and avoid cancer-causing factors. Alcohol here includes all alcoholic beverages.
Drinking alcohol is very likely to cause alcoholic fatty liver, which may increase the possibility of liver cancer, breast cancer, digestive tract cancer and other cancers. Cancer patients Best not to drink a drop!
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3 , Moldy food
For example, moldy peanuts, corn, leftovers, and leftovers, aflatoxin will appear.
Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic substance to humans, and aflatoxin B1 is the most carcinogenic chemical substance discovered so far.
So if you find food spoiled and moldy in your life, don’t just throw away the place with mold, eat the rest, you must be decisive Throw it all away.
4. Added sugar
Added sugar directly leads to overweight and obesity, and overweight and obesity are one of the key factors that increase cancer risk. In addition, added sugar increases the glycemic load index, which may trigger insulin resistance and increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
5. Highly processed food
For example, “junk food” such as carbonated drinks, chocolate, candy, ice cream, frozen desserts, french fries burgers, etc.
Highly processed foods have super high energy, high oil, high sugar and high salt, which directly lead to weight gain, obesity, and increase the risk of cancer. Cancer patients are advised to refrain from eating highly processed foods and maintain a healthy weight.
Finally, processed meat Products, alcohol, moldy foods, added sugar, and highly processed foods may all increase the risk of cancer. Please eat carefully, and don’t forget to take care of your health while enjoying the food!
2. How should cancer patients eat these two common foods in daily life?
1. Yogurt
Is there any taboo for cancer patients to drink yogurt? First of all, let’s make it clear that cancer patients can drink yogurt.
Yogurt is especially suitable for people who cannot drink milk. Many people are lactose intolerant or have indigestion symptoms after drinking milk. The lactose in yogurt The content is less than milk, so many people and yogurt will not produce discomfort.
In addition, yogurt is a kind of dairy products and has many beneficial nutrients, such as protein, B vitamins, vitamin A, calcium, Digestive enzymes, lactic acid bacteria, etc. Suitable for cancer patients.
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< span> However, both flavored yogurt and fruit yogurt contain additional added sugar, additives or spices, etc., it is not recommended to drink too much.
Finally, it is recommended that patients can drink 1-2 cups of yogurt every day, preferably within 2 hours after meals. If you are taking sulfa drugs, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and other antibiotics, you should not take it with yogurt!
2. Blended products
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people, and taste is the first food. Facing daily condiments: can oyster sauce, soy sauce, vinegar and other condiments be used by cancer patients?
Oyster sauce, soy sauce and vinegar, the main function of these condiments is to freshen the food. Under normal circumstances, cancer patients can use it.
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Besides this In addition, ginger, onion, garlic, star anise, pepper and cooking wine, etc., these spicy foods we often say are not contraindicated for cancer patients,
Appropriate seasoning can make food more attractive and stimulate appetite, so that every meal will not be so bland.
However, special attention should be paid to the fact that during the treatment period, drugs can easily cause oral mucositis and sore throat. Eat spicy food to avoid irritating inflammation and ulcer formation. For patients with acute gastritis, peptic ulcer and hemorrhoids, it is best to refuse spicy food!
Editor in charge: Department of Gynecology Tumor Mutual Aid
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