What are the dietary principles for liver cancer patients?

  1.Balanced diet: Liver cancer patients consume a lot and must ensure sufficient nutrition. The easiest way to measure the good nutritional status of patients is whether they can maintain their body weight. To maintain the normal weight, the best way is to maintain a balanced diet, which requires patients to eat more fresh vegetables, and half of them should be green leafy vegetables.  2.Fat and protein: High-fat diet will affect and aggravate the disease, while low-fat diet can reduce the symptoms of nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension of liver cancer patients. Patients with liver cancer have poor appetite and eat less, if they do not have sufficient amount of balanced diet, they must increase the calorie of the diet and eat fat and sweet food that can be easily digested and absorbed, such as honey, royal jelly. Cane sugar as well as vegetable oil and cream, etc. Liver cancer patients should eat more protein-rich foods, especially high-quality protein, such as lean meat, eggs, beans and milk, to prevent the decrease of albumin. However, in the late stage of liver cancer, when the liver function is not good, the protein intake should be controlled so as not to induce hepatic encephalopathy by excessive protein intake.  3.Vitamins: Vitamin A, C, E and K have certain auxiliary anti-tumor effects. Vitamin C is mainly found in fresh vegetables and fruits. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A after entering the body, so liver cancer patients should eat more animal liver, carrots, cauliflower, yellow flowers, cabbage, figs, dates and so on. Meanwhile, they should also eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as radish, pumpkin, bamboo shoots, asparagus, apples, umeboshi, kiwi, etc.  4, inorganic salts: that is, minerals. Nutritionists divided inorganic salts into two categories: macronutrients, such as calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, etc.; trace elements, such as selenium, zinc, iodine, copper, manganese, germanium, etc.. Scientists have found that minerals such as selenium, magnesium, copper, magnesium and iron have anti-cancer effects. Liver cancer patients should eat more foods containing trace elements with anti-cancer effect, such as garlic, mushroom, asparagus, corn, seaweed, kelp, nori, clam, sea fish, egg yolk, brown rice, beans, whole wheat pasta, nuts, pumpkin, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage and animal liver and kidney, as well as ginseng, wolfberry, yam and reishi.  5.Patients with liver cancer mostly have symptoms of indigestion such as loss of appetite, nausea and abdominal distension. Therefore, they should eat easily digestible food, such as sour plum soup, fresh orange juice, fruit juice, ginger candy water, noodle soup, fresh millet porridge, etc., to help digestion and relieve pain, and do not eat too cold, too hot or too full. As nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite are common in liver cancer patients, it is appropriate to eat appetizing and light food, such as almond milk, lotus root powder, corn paste, kumquat cake, mountain crumb cake and other easily digestible food, and avoid heavy oil and fatty food.  6.Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma mostly suffer from general weakness, soreness and weakness of limbs and poor sweating due to injury to qi and blood, so they should mainly benefit qi and nourish blood. Carp soup, black chicken soup, ginseng tea, cinnamon, silver fungus and turtle can be consumed, and hard and cold food should be avoided.  7.Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma are mostly in a state of general exhaustion and have difficulty in eating, so they should be supported.