As for the "taboo" of cancer patients, folk sayings emerge one after another. Some people say that you can't eat any red meat, and chickens, ducks, beef and mutton should be discarded. Some say that fish, shrimp, crab and tofu are all hair products, which are easy to cause tumor recurrence and are "accomplices" to promote tumor growth. So are these foods really that dangerous? Should tumor patients avoid eating?

In this regard, Dr. Yang, the attending physician of Peking University Cancer Hospital, has something to say.

Dr. Yang said: In the development of oncology, if western medicine is a "immortal" who has lived for more than 200 years, then Chinese medicine is just a fledgling "young man". In this way, some people may be unconvinced to refute, nonsense, China people have been treating tumors for a long time.

But judging from the age of tumor, the average age is about 60 years old, so what was the average age of China people in the past? Let me break it down for you: Eastern Han Dynasty, 22 years old; Tang dynasty, 27 years old; Song dynasty, 30 years old; The Qing dynasty was 33 years old; 35 years old during the Republic of China.

It was not until the founding of New China that the average life expectancy of China people rose and gradually caught up with the level of developed countries, reaching 68.92 years in 1985 and over 70 years in 20 10.

Visible, in the past can live to 50 years old, can be said to be a long life, and this is only a minority, not to the age of tumor-prone, then how can the ancestors of traditional Chinese medicine at that time have a unique treatment concept for tumors?

Therefore, there is no need to take the "hair" said by our ancestors seriously. We should know that the occurrence of tumors is the result of the combined action of genes and environmental factors, and the so-called hair products are basically some nutritious foods, and no carcinogenic ingredients have been found.

Therefore, it may be more effective for western medicine to guide patients to choose and formulate their own diet strategies according to their own conditions than to directly deny any diet strategies and let patients choose for themselves.

As for whether the patient can eat chicken after tumor, it is recommended that the patient consult the attending physician before following the doctor's advice. Don't believe in rumors and blindly avoid eating.

If you really dislike a certain food, your family should not insist on it, just follow his wishes. However, family members should remember that the diet must be balanced. If you don't eat chicken, it doesn't matter, then you should appropriately increase the intake of egg milk and fish to ensure the nutritional supply of patients.

As for eating spicy food, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, it does have some influence on the cold temperature of some drugs and the compatibility between foods, but from the perspective of western medicine, especially after surgery, it is almost not taboo.

Studies have shown that pepper is very rich in nutritional value, contains a lot of vitamins and trace elements, and is also a very good food against oxygen free radical damage. Long-term use can even reduce the occurrence of cancer.

Therefore, cancer patients do not need excessive and blind taboos. If you have to say some taboos, it is better than anything to get rid of the two most critical taboos. These two things are called cigarettes and wine.

Generally speaking, the most important thing for cancer patients is to try to achieve a balanced diet and not go to extremes.

Most cancer patients are weak after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, at this time, family members will try their best to give supplements to patients, and "impatience is easy to get things wrong" often goes to two extremes: First, tonic food such as soft-shelled turtle, soft-shelled turtle and sea cucumber is given to patients, in order to make patients recover as soon as possible, but patients' appetite decreases and their digestive function is good because of illness and treatment.

Second, I won't make up for it. I feel that taking tonics will only accelerate the growth of tumors. In fact, there is no research to prove which tonic can only supplement the tumor but not the human body, but sometimes it can improve the immunity of patients. Therefore, cancer patients should make up or not, but pay attention to the method.

For cancer patients, the most important thing is to achieve a balance in diet. It is the best way to recover by taking a wide range of nutrients needed by the human body. If bone marrow transplantation leads to the decrease of white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, etc. You can eat more foods that tonify qi and blood, kidney and marrow, such as Ejiao, jujube, peanuts, walnuts and longan. If your appetite drops, you can eat more appetizing foods, such as hawthorn and dried tangerine peel.

In short, cancer patients should consult professional doctors before taking supplements, and then formulate appropriate dietary guidelines according to their own conditions, so as to better avoid stepping into the "pit" of dietotherapy.

1, soup is the most nutritious.

Many people have this view. When stewing fish soup, pigeon soup and bone soup, they think the essence is in the soup. Therefore, many cancer patients will only choose to drink soup instead of soup residue. In fact, this practice is wrong. Relevant data tests show that the nutrition in the soup is only 5%- 10 of the raw material, and most of the nutrition is in the soup residue. Therefore, it is suggested that patients eat soup with dregs to obtain higher nutrition. If you have poor digestion and poor appetite, you can seek the help of a doctor and supplement your nutrition through other methods.

2. If you don't eat, you can starve to death.

Many patients feel that as long as they don't eat or eat little vegetarian food, cancer cells will starve to death and have no energy source. This idea is actually wrong, because even if the body is malnourished, cancer cells can rob the normal cells of nutrition in the body. So, maybe you haven't starved cancer cells to death, because of long-term malnutrition, decreased immunity, increased risk of infection, and finally "committed suicide."

3. Therapeutic effect > drugs

Because of fear, many cancer patients began to focus on various health products, tonics and even folk remedies. Although some foods do have auxiliary therapeutic effects on cancer treatment, there is no reliable human research to prove that special recipes, foods, vitamins, minerals, food additives, herbs or compound products can cure cancer.

Therefore, regarding the treatment of cancer, we still follow the doctor's advice honestly, standardize treatment and take medicine. In particular, some folk remedies have no scientific basis, so they should be used with caution to avoid ineffective treatment, aggravating the condition and bringing more health problems.

Regarding the cancer diet, the simplest and most important principle is to try to achieve a balanced diet. If you don't know how to treat it, you can consult the attending doctor and ask him to help you formulate a proper dietary guide, which is more targeted and helpful for rehabilitation.

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