5 foods that must be eaten to prevent stomach cancer
Since stomach cancer is related to “food”, are there any foods that can help prevent stomach cancer? The answer is yes. Recently, some foreign nutrition experts have found that if you eat the following foods regularly, you can prevent or reduce the occurrence of stomach cancer.
1.Garlic
Garlic is a recognized anti-cancer food and has obvious anti-cancer effects. Epidemiological surveys show that people who consume raw garlic have a very low incidence of stomach cancer, because garlic can significantly reduce the nitrite content in the stomach, reducing the possibility of synthesis of amines nitrite, thus playing a cancer prevention effect.
2.Onion
Eating onions can reduce the nitrite content in the stomach, the important thing is that onions contain a kind of oak peel material, as a natural anti-cancer substances. Research shows that people who eat onion regularly have 25% less incidence of stomach cancer than those who eat less or no onion, and the fatal rate of stomach cancer is 30% lower.
3.Mushrooms
This kind of food includes mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, etc. and fungus. Scientists have found that many mushrooms in food contain anti-cancer substances, which can play a role in cancer prevention. For example, the polysaccharide contained in the winter mushroom has a very high anti-cancer rate. The polysaccharides contained in black fungus and white fungus are also an effective anti-cancer substance. The crude fiber and calcium contained in mushroom foods have anti-cancer effects and can also improve human immunity.
4.Tomato
Tomatoes contain lycopene and carotene, both of which are antioxidants, especially lycopene, which can neutralize free radicals in the body and is good for fighting stomach and digestive cancers, and is also effective in preventing breast and prostate cancers.
5.Cauliflower
Cauliflower contains more trace elements of molybdenum, which can block the synthesis of carcinogenic amines nitrite and can play an anti-cancer and anti-cancer role. Some studies have reported that cauliflower also contains an enzyme called small sulfide that can stimulate cellular activity, which can stop the formation of cancer cells. Eating cauliflower has a certain effect on the prevention of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer.
Post-operative diet for gastric cancer
(Due to the difference of individual condition, the specific diet should follow the doctor’s advice, the following is for reference only)
After gastrectomy, some patients cannot maintain their original weight, and due to trauma or inability to eat normally, protein and fat are consumed in the body, resulting in weight loss, and some vitamin deficiency diseases and complications after gastrectomy may occur.
1. After gastrectomy, usually fasting and drinking should be done, and a small amount of warm water or glucose drink can be given only after 24 hours to 48 hours when the general condition is good, intestinal peristalsis is restored and the anus is exhausted.
2. If there is no discomfort, a small amount of light liquid food, such as rice soup, vegetable soup, diluted lotus root powder, light fruit water, etc., can be given on the next day, but no sucrose, milk and soy milk, etc., because these foods can produce abdominal distension.
The fourth day can still use liquid food, but add sweet milk, sweet soybean milk, etc. on top of the liquid food.
On the fifth day, a semi-liquid diet with less residue can be used, such as rice porridge, tofu with minced pork and tomato sauce, wontons, noodles with tomato sauce or vegetable sauce, bread, cakes, milk, soy milk, etc.
5. The ninth day can be changed to a nutritious, easily digestible, non-irritating, soft diet of five meals a day for stomach problems. If there is nausea, bloating and other discomfort after eating, the diet should be reduced or stopped. After the symptoms disappear and the condition improves, start eating again.
Using cooking methods such as steaming, boiling, braising and stewing, patients should wait until their surgical trauma and weakened bodies have fully recovered before gradually overtaking to a normal ordinary diet. Since the volume of the stomach is obviously reduced after gastrectomy, the absorption of food nutrients is affected, so pay attention to increasing foods with high vitamin D content, such as animal offal and carrots, in appropriate amounts in the daily diet.
Foods with high calcium content include various soy products, dairy products and oatmeal, cabbage, cabbage, carrot, celery, pumpkin, radish, spinach, gourd, leek, dandelion, winter melon, etc. Certain hard fruits and seeds foods are also high in calcium, such as dried almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, etc. Fruits include oranges, etc.
Some vegetables and spinach, amaranth, water spinach, etc. contain oxalic acid are affecting the absorption of calcium, the vegetables containing high oxalic acid can be blanched in boiling water first, so that part of the oxalic acid first dissolved in water, filter the water and then fried. Note that adding leavening agent to flour, corn flour and bean flour and extending the fermentation time can make phytic acid hydrolyze and increase free calcium, so that calcium can be easily absorbed.
Try millet porridge for postoperative health care of stomach cancer
1. Raw barley, jujube and yam should be added to millet porridge. For this reason, nutrition experts recommend gastric cancer patients to use rice porridge to nourish their stomach and intestines in order to safely pass chemotherapy.
2. The rice porridge recommended by experts is not the general millet porridge, but the main ingredients must include millet, raw barley, jujube and yam. Because, millet can nourish the stomach, raw barley can strengthen the spleen and dampness, jujube will benefit the qi and blood, yam can flatten the lungs, spleen and kidneys, and also has the effect of removing dampness. The four kinds of food together with the porridge, morning and evening to take, in order to play a role in supporting the right qi, stomach qi.
3, when cooking porridge, do not forget to put a little edible alkali, edible alkali can make the active ingredients of millet to play a role, so that the porridge cooked more sticky. Raw barley is more difficult to cook, soak it in cool water for 1 hour before putting it in the pot, using about 50 grams each time. Put 5~6 pieces of jujube each time, not too many, so as to avoid distension and fullness in the stomach and epigastric region and aggravate the condition.
4. Stomach cancer patients formulated recipes during chemotherapy: milk, egg custard and millet porridge can be consumed for breakfast; lunch is mainly pasta and more mushrooms such as shiitake and enoki mushrooms; dinner is mainly millet porridge.
Third, chemotherapy for gastric cancer is not easy, how to eat? There are rules!
1. From the perspective of nutrition supply, the requirements of high protein, vitamin-rich and sufficient heat should be met. Patients’ appetite is poor during chemotherapy, and there are reactions such as nausea and vomiting, so the diet should be thin, soft and easy to digest, and a small amount of multiple meals is good.
2, also pay attention to eat less or no pickles, avoid eating smoked and fried food. Forbid to eat moldy food, tobacco and alcohol.
3, eat less greasy and cold things, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, eat less too salty and too sweet, can eat fish and shrimp old turtle, sea cucumber, etc. In terms of treatment: take Qibromo Redbud herbal medicine during the interval of chemotherapy to reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy, and at the same time consolidate the effect of chemotherapy, and take it after chemotherapy to prevent recurrence and metastasis.
4. Different eating methods for different symptoms of gastric cancer chemotherapy
(1) It is appropriate to eat more foods that can enhance immunity and anti-stomach cancer, such as yam, lentils, barley, rhizome, enoki mushroom, shiitake mushroom, mushroom, sunflower seed, kiwi, fig, apple, sardine, honey, pigeon egg, milk, pig liver, monkey head mushroom.
(2) It is advisable to eat more highly nutritious foods to prevent cachexia, such as crow bone chicken, pigeon, quail, beef, pork, rabbit, egg, duck, tofu, silver carp, grass carp, swordfish, carp, loach, shrimp, tamari, pig liver, sturgeon.
(3) nausea, vomiting is appropriate to eat grapefruit, orange, loquat, walnut, rose, poppy, fig, pear, winter vegetables, mango, umeboshi, lotus seed.
(4) Blood in stool is appropriate to eat light vegetables, turtle, shark, marjoram, goldenseal, monkey head mushroom, honey, shepherd’s purse, banana, olive, umeboshi, wood ear, sheep’s blood, broad bean coat, sesame, persimmon cake, tofu residue, etc.
(5) Shark, lentils, pear, prunes, chestnuts, pomegranate, lotus seeds and mackerel are suitable for diarrhea.
(6) It is advisable to eat kumquat, cabbage, flounder, toadfish, sandworm, sea cucumber, squid and taro flower for abdominal pain.
(7) Food to prevent and control the side effects of chemotherapy kiwi, asparagus, cinnamon, walnuts, carp, shrimp, crab, goat blood, goose blood, black fungus, quail, barley, green beans, golden needle, apple, loofah, walnuts, turtle, snapper.