Fighting cancer is an uphill battle, and liver cancer is an all-consuming disease. Patients must ensure adequate nutrition to have sufficient energy and stamina to win the long battle.
Many patients have heard the argument that cancer patients should not enhance their nutrition, that cancer cells ingesting nutrition will accelerate tumor growth, and that by reducing nutrition they can “starve” cancer cells. This is a completely false statement.
On the contrary, rich nutrition strengthens the resistance and immunity of cancer patients and helps to prevent and fight cancer.
How do you measure how well a patient is nourished? The easiest way is to see if you can maintain your weight, so you must eat right and maintain a balanced diet.
So, how can liver cancer patients achieve a reasonable diet?
Eating regularly
- Timed, regular, and small meals to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract;
- Eat slowly, chew and swallow slowly;
- Do not lie down half an hour after a meal;
- Avoid over-starvation, over-filling and overeating.
Food traits
- Choose soft, fresh, light, easily digestible, and low irritation foods with appropriate food temperature;
- Avoid intake of coarse fiber foods and excessively hard foods;
- Avoid intake of moldy, pickled, smoked, fire-baked and fried foods, such as moldy peanuts, moldy soybeans, salted fish, pickled vegetables, etc;
- Avoid intake of moldy, pickled, smoked, fire-baked and fried foods;
- Avoid the intake of heavy, too acidic, too sweet, too salty and too much gas food;
- Avoid the intake of heavy, too acidic, too sweet, too salty and too much gas food;
- Avoid the intake of stimulating foods, including alcohol and caffeine containing foods such as wine, coffee, strong tea, and various spicy condiments, such as onion, ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, curry, pepper, pepper, cinnamon, etc.
- Avoid the intake of foods that are too hot or too cold.
Nutrition mix
- consume foods high in protein, calories, vitamins and fat;
- Incorporate more foods rich in high-quality protein, such as lean meat, eggs, fish and shrimp, beans, milk, etc., although in the advanced stage of liver cancer when liver function is poor, protein intake should be controlled to avoid excessive protein intake to induce hepatic encephalopathy;
- Appropriate vitamin supplementation. Fresh vegetables and fruits with high vitamin content include carrot, bok choy, rape, celery, spinach, parsley, pumpkin, sweet potato, apricot, cabbage, forage, caper, strawberry, tangerine, orange, apple, hawthorn, kiwi, etc;
- Avoid high-fat and high-salt diets, which can affect and aggravate the condition and aggravate the patient’s nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension;
- For patients with ascites, excessive sodium intake will aggravate ascites, and a low-salt or salt-free diet should be given.
In addition, patients with liver cancer should have a varied diet, not a partial diet, and avoid a single menu.
Many liver cancer patients have the question: Should they take supplements such as ginseng, American ginseng and royal jelly? Our advice is that it is best not to take these supplements. Not only are they difficult to protect the liver, but they may also increase the burden on the liver and even cause damage to it.