Daily green vegetables and winter squash with occasional slice of meat “Doctor, do I need to avoid eating?” Most tumor patients will ask their doctors this question after surgery. “The concern of tumor patients and their families is not unreasonable, because, indeed, many diseases are eaten out, but they should follow those traditional taboo habits with scientific basis, according to their own condition and constitution, never hearsay, otherwise, the nutritional status of patients will deteriorate day by day, which is not conducive to treatment and recovery.” Auntie Li, 50 years old, has lost her skin and bones after surgery. Auntie Li, 50 years old, had her gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumor removed more than a month ago. Last week, she came to see Dr. He Fule for reasons of weakness and loss of appetite, only to see her pale, sunken eyes and listlessly sitting down in front of Dr. He. “Her mental state was very poor and she felt that she didn’t even have the strength to speak. At first, I thought it was caused by not recovering from a week or two after the surgery, then I asked, she had been operated for more than a month.” She has a gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumor that is not very malignant, and as a rule, her body can recover in half a month after surgery, but she has recovered poorly, and has also developed anemia, with only 9 grams of hematocrit, compared to about 12 grams for a normal person. “She ate very little every day, it felt like she didn’t even eat much.” Auntie Li’s family said that when she was first discharged from the hospital, she just didn’t eat beef, crabs, shrimp and other things that would send. Later, she didn’t know where she heard that chicken, eggs and fish should not be eaten either, otherwise it would lead to tumor recurrence, and she mainly ate vegetables every day; then later, she didn’t even eat vegetables with high starch content such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins, etc. She heard that starchy food is not easy to digest and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Now, she eats almost every day on some vegetables, winter melon, loofah and other very light things, occasionally eat a piece or two of meat, but must be boiled pork, braised, fried resolutely do not eat. This does not eat, that does not eat, more than a month down, Aunt Li from the pre-operative more than 100 pounds, thin only more than 80 pounds. “It is necessary to properly avoid eating after tumor surgery, but such avoidance is too absolute, and there is no scientific basis for many of them.” Gastrointestinal tumor patients, after surgery, do not eat cold, greasy, fishy, pickled and other foods that are not easy to digest or have special irritation and not fresh. Such as ginger, green onion, fried food, salted fish, duck in sauce, etc., but fresh chicken, duck, fish, eggs and duck eggs are also not eaten, which is too much. In the outpatient clinic, there are really many tumor patients who do not eat chicken and eggs, not only Auntie Li one. They think that chicken is “hairy” and eating chicken or eggs will cause tumor recurrence or promote the growth of cancer cells. I have never seen any literature on this. On the contrary, the nutritional composition of eggs and chicken is very suitable for human physiological needs, easy for the body to absorb and use, eggs also contain a variety of essential trace elements, is a good tonic. Seventy percent of vegetables, less meat, more fresh, less warm. Avoidance of food is an issue of great concern to tumor patients, and even people who have been ill for three or four years still call him from time to time to consult whether they can eat this or that. He also found that about 1/4-1/3 of tumor patients in the clinic are blindly abstaining from eating, so that their recovery is slow. What should tumor patients eat? Dr. He summarized several big principles for your reference– Vegetables are the mainstay, and meat and vegetables are supplementary. Vegetables should account for about 70% of the total diet. There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that “thick and fatty food is enough to produce big boils”, which means that eating high-fat and high-oil food will easily produce big diseases. At the same time, Chinese medicine also believes that greasy food is easy to help phlegm and dampness, and most tumor patients are accompanied by qi stagnation and blood stasis, phlegm and dampness, so eating too much greasy food is equal to pouring oil on the fire. It is recommended to eat more vegetables because fresh vegetables are rich in vitamin C and other trace elements, which help to restore the immunity of the body. Eat more fresh and less warm. Fresh food is rich in nutrients, while pickled ones, such as pickled vegetables, salted fish, salted meat, bacon and sauerkraut, contain a lot of nitrite, which is one of the factors causing cancer. At the same time, many pickled products of lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and other heavy metals, as well as peroxide value, acid value, trimethylamine nitrogen, sulfide, etc. will exceed the standard, and pickled products do not contain vitamin C and other trace elements needed by the human body. The common warm meat dishes are beef, mutton and dog meat, sparrow, etc.; fruits include cinnamon, lychee and other tropical fruits; there are also garlic, ginger, pepper, chives, cinnamon, aromatic leaves and other ingredients also belong to the warm ones. Tumor patients should eat less warm food because according to Chinese medicine, tumor is caused by qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm condensation and dampness, and evil knots are easy to turn into heat over time. For those tumor patients with anxiety and depression, irritability and insomnia, Dr. He recommends two dietary congees. Barley porridge Ingredients: 50 grams of barley, 5-10 grams of rose hips. Directions: Boil water in a thermos cup to soak roses for 15 minutes, soak 200ml of juice, and cook barley with rose juice for 20-30 minutes. Drink once a day to help relieve anxiety and depression. Yam porridge Ingredients: 50 grams of yam, Acacia 5-10 grams. Directions: Soak acacia flowers in a thermos of boiling water for 15 minutes, soak 200ml of juice, and cook barley with acacia juice for 20-30 minutes. Drink once a day to help regulate irritability and insomnia. Whether from modern medicine, or Chinese medicine theory, tumor patients should be appropriate according to the condition and treatment needs to avoid the mouth, avoiding the mouth is conducive to disease treatment, but should still pay attention to dietary diversity, balanced diet, can not be made absolute, avoiding the food needs to be based on the condition and medicinal properties, can not be generalized, really can not be determined to consult the clinician.