1.How to prevent from diet?
Research shows that Japanese people’s diet contains less fat, so the incidence of breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer is low, while their food has a lot of cured fish and meat, therefore, the incidence of stomach and esophageal cancer is high. In contrast, a survey of Japanese people who moved to the United States found that the incidence of stomach and esophageal cancers was significantly reduced again due to a change in their dietary habits. From the above, it is clear that these cancers have little to do with heredity and much to do with changes in dietary habits and environmental conditions.
Another interesting point is that if exposure to carcinogenic compounds is accompanied by an increase in the amount of vitamin C and vitamin A outside the diet, the incidence of cancer can be effectively reduced. For example, smokers with higher levels of vitamin A in their food had a lower incidence of lung cancer, which also suggests that the incidence of some cancers can be controlled by nutrition. According to domestic and foreign research, there are enough data to show that there are more than ten kinds of cancers that can be prevented by adjusting the diet structure, namely oral cancer, throat cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer, urinary system cancer, rectal cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and breast cancer.
To adjust the dietary structure, the first thing is to eat more foods rich in vitamin C and vitamin A. The former are foods such as cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, green-coated vegetables, cauliflower, lemons, mangoes, and grass molds, while the latter are animal liver, oysters, scallops, eels, shrimps and crabs, milk, eggs, etc.
According to research, among many foods, shiitake mushroom, radish, sweet potato, garlic, tomato and animal liver are more anti-cancer. Shiitake mushroom contains a substance called “1,3-beta glucosidase”, which can enhance the body’s ability to inhibit cancer tumors and strengthen the anti-cancer effect without adverse effects. Especially for patients after cancer surgery, continuous consumption of shiitake mushroom soup can prevent cancer cells from metastasizing.
Carrots contain a large amount of carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the human body. It can reduce the chance of cancer by 40%, and regular consumption of carrots can help smokers reduce the risk of lung cancer.
The liver of animals such as pigs, cows, sheep and chickens is rich in vitamin A. People who lack vitamin A in their diet often have a lung cancer incidence rate three times higher than normal people.
2.How to avoid eating for lung cancer patients?
If you have lung cancer, what should you pay attention to in terms of diet? In clinical practice, patients often ask, “What should I pay attention to in terms of diet?” This question, which seems not to be a medical specialty but is asked by almost every patient, has great differences between doctors and patients: for example, one patient said that his doctor told him, “You should strictly abstain from eating all meats, such as chicken, duck and fish, and you can only eat vegetarian food.” After the diet, the patient lost weight, his health deteriorated day by day, and he was unable to do any anti-cancer treatment. In another patient, the doctor said there was no need to abstain from eating anything, but he ended up eating a lot of meat, which caused severe diarrhea. Another patient who had scorpion soup after herbal intervention caused drug loss, haemorrhage and rapid deterioration of her condition.
So, should lung cancer patients avoid eating or not? My answer is: lung cancer patients must abstain from eating, but they should do so in a scientific and reasonable way. The taboo refers to the avoidance of certain foods during the disease, which is important for the treatment and recovery of cancer patients.
For most cancer patients, the taboo is mainly to.
(1) Avoid smoking and alcohol.
(2) avoid overeating and greasy food.
(3) avoid salted, smoked, baked and fried food, especially baked and caramelized food.
(4) avoid onion, garlic, pepper, chili, cinnamon and other spicy stimulating food.
(5) avoid moldy, pickled vinegar food, such as moldy peanuts, moldy soybeans, salted fish, pickles, etc..
(6) avoid more bones, rough and hard, sticky and indigestible and coarse fiber food.
(7) avoid heavy, too acidic, too sweet, too salty, too cold, too hot and too much food containing gas.
(8) If there is ascites, avoid foods with more salt and water.
(9) Avoid scorpion, centipede, food and Chinese medicine with blood-activating effect if the patient has low coagulation function, especially those with bleeding tendency.
3.How to arrange diet for lung cancer patients?
(1) To reduce or eliminate the patient’s fear of cancer, to increase the patient’s appetite by all means, to change the variety of dishes frequently, and to pay attention to the color and aroma of the dishes.
(2) To maintain adequate protein intake. Cancer is a consuming disease, especially protein is consumed a lot. Often eat lean pork, beef, rabbit or chicken and duck poultry. If the patient is averse to greasy meat, replace it with protein-rich non-meat foods, such as cheese, egg cake, salted duck eggs, etc.
(3) Avoid foods that are not easily digestible. Should eat more boiled, stewed, steamed and other easily digestible food, and less fried food.
(4) Eat more vitamin-rich vegetables, fruits and other foods that help to fight cancer, such as asparagus, kelp, seaweed, onion, garlic, mushrooms, etc.
(5) Appropriate use of TCM diet therapy: after radiotherapy, patients often have dry mouth and tongue, red tongue with less coating and other signs of fluid depletion, so they can eat more sweet and cool foods that nourish yin and promote fluid, such as lotus root juice, water chestnut juice, pear juice, mung bean soup, winter melon soup, watermelon, etc. During chemotherapy, patients’ immune function decreases, white blood cells decrease and appetite is poor. During chemotherapy, the patient’s immune function decreases, the white blood cell decreases and the appetite is boosted.
For the general public, cancer is not an incurable disease that comes suddenly, but has a long process of occurrence and growth. Understanding the growth process of cancer helps us to prevent and treat it in advance, to prepare for a rainy day, to bring the umbrella before it rains, to develop good eating and living habits, to pay attention to our health condition consciously, and to go to the hospital for regular medical check-ups.