Breast cancer patients are generally weak. During chemotherapy, they should increase the intake of protein and carbohydrates appropriately and eat less high-fat and high-cholesterol food. The diet should be diversified, with meat and vegetables, acid-base balance, and pay attention to the color, aroma and taste of food. Patients who are anorexic can eat some appetizing foods such as hawthorn, radish and kumquat to increase their appetite.
2. Eat more foods rich in anti-cancer ingredients. The following are some of the foods that have certain preventive and curative effects on breast cancer patients.
A. Cabbage, Chinese cabbage and kale contain indole-3-methanol, an anti-cancer substance that can stop the induction of tumor cells by carcinogens in the body and inhibit the growth of tumors.
B, garlic, onions, etc. contain allicin, which can block the synthesis of nitrosamines, and also contain vitamin C, vitamin A and other components, which can play an anti-cancer role.
C, bean products such as tofu, soy milk and soy sprouts are rich in phytoestrogens, which can competitively inhibit the effect of estrogen in the body and play an anti-cancer role.
D. Asparagus contains histone, which is experimentally proven to be effective in controlling the growth of breast cancer cells.
In addition, foods such as seaweed, nori and tomatoes contain anti-cancer ingredients, which are beneficial to breast cancer patients when consumed regularly.
3. Eat some fresh fruits: watermelon, kiwi, apricot, apple, pear and strawberry are rich in vitamin C and vitamin B, which have certain anti-cancer effects. Moreover, jujube not only contains hawthorn acid and other anti-cancer ingredients, but also has therapeutic effects on the reduction of packet cells and platelet reduction caused by chemotherapy, so breast cancer patients can often eat jujube during chemotherapy.
4. Reasonable arrangement of diet and chemotherapy: Patients’ digestive function will be very weak at this time, so diet should be based on porridge and less and more meals. Such as pork ribs and seaweed soup, black chicken tonic porridge, lotus seeds and lily of the valley congee, yam barley and red dates porridge, red dates and silver ear soup, etc.. On the day of chemotherapy, the diet should be light and delicious; when the intravenous chemotherapy is carried out on an empty stomach, so it should be eaten 3 hours before chemotherapy, when the food has been basically digested and emptied, and dinner is eaten later after the end of chemotherapy to reduce the symptoms of nausea and vomiting. When taking chemotherapy drugs orally, it is better to take them half an hour after meals, when the blood concentration reaches its peak, when there is already a fasting state, the digestive tract reaction will be lighter. Chemotherapy vomiting can be held in the mouth ginger slices, for the anti-vomiting will help. In addition, we recommend three acupuncture points, acupressure massage stimulation can relieve the symptoms of vomiting: 1. Nei Guan is located in the middle of the forearm, 2 inches above the transverse wrist line; 2. Hegu is located in the back of the hand at the tiger’s mouth, between the first metacarpal bone and the second metacarpal bone in the trap; 3. For symptoms of leukopenia and hair loss, eat lean meat, fish, river crab, eel, black fish, beef, milk, red dates and red beans, all of which have the effect of raising leukocytes. When constipation occurs, eat more vegetables and fruits, such as asparagus, sweet potatoes, kelp, seaweed, and mushrooms.
A few recommended recipes.
1.Lingzhi loofah soup
Ingredients: 150 grams of natural linden wood lingzhi, 500 grams of loofah, 40 grams of black fungus, 2 eggs, 10 milliliters of soybean oil, 10 grams of white onion, shredded ginger, salt, and a little monosodium glutamate.
Directions: Grind Lingzhi, put it into a pot, add 3 bowls of water and decoct for 20 minutes, remove the dregs and take the juice. Beat the eggs into a bowl, add salt and mix well; peel the loofah, wash and cut into pieces. Put the pot on the fire, add soybean oil and heat, stir-fry with ginger, add white onion, loofah, fungus, Lingzhi juice and cook, add egg mixture and cook, add MSG seasoning and serve.
Features: soup thick flavor, crispy fungus. It has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying, supporting and fighting cancer. It is suitable for breast cancer patients who are suffering from poor sleep and dry mouth.
2.Kelp and radish soup
Ingredients: 30 grams of kelp and 250 grams of white radish.
Practice: Soak the kelp in cold water for 12 hours, change the water several times, wash it and cut it into diamond-shaped slices, and set aside. Soak white radish in cold water for a few moments, wash its outer skin repeatedly, cut into thin strips with skin and roots, put into casserole with kelp diamond-shaped slices, add sufficient water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the radish strips are crispy, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, minced garlic (or green garlic), mix well and drizzle with sesame oil.
Features: soft and loose knots, cancer prevention and anti-cancer. Kelp, also known as seaweed, is cold and salty in nature, specializing in softening and dispersing knots, clearing heat and promoting water. Modern medical research has found that kelp and other algae are effective in preventing breast cancer because they contain trace elements of iodine. Japanese scientists have also proved through experiments that the kelp extract from kelp has anti-cancer effects. Radish, which is good at eliminating stagnation, resolving phlegm and heat, and relieving gas and relaxing the middle, is a very popular vegetable and medicine, and is known as “October radish small ginseng”. In recent years, scientific research has found that radish has anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. The indole substances contained in radish can inhibit the growth of animal tumors, and the fiber lignin in radish can improve the function of macrophages to swallow bacteria, foreign bodies and necrotic cells, thus strengthening the body’s anti-cancer ability. This dietary formula, as an adjuvant therapy for breast cancer patients and their post-operative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, has obvious effects in reducing patients’ self-conscious symptoms, enhancing the immune function of the body and improving appetite.
3.Papaya with scallop
Ingredients: 250 grams of raw papaya, 200 grams of fresh scallops.
Practice: first peel and wash the raw papaya, cut into slices and set aside. Scallop picking miscellaneous, gill and gut, wash (do not wash away the silvery white grease on the surface of the scallop), cut into 3.5 cm wide sections, set aside. Heat a pot on the fire, add vegetable oil to 60% heat, put onion, ginger stir-fry stir-fry pot, after the aroma that put into the scallop segment, stir-fry when appropriate, cooking into the wine, add broth or water to the appropriate amount, boil over high heat, put papaya slices, change to low heat with the boil until the scallop meat, papaya slices cooked rotten, add salt, monosodium glutamate, mix well, drizzle into a little sesame oil that is ready.
Features: soothe the muscles and channels, cancer prevention and anti-cancer. Papaya is a deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae family, the fruit of begonia or papaya, Chinese medicine, papaya is sour, astringent, warm, and specializes in soothing the tendons and activating the ligaments, and stomach and dampness. In recent years, many experimental studies have shown that papaya also has certain anti-cancer effects. Papaya extract has a significant inhibitory effect on animal tumor cells cultured in test tubes; in vitro experiments, papaya aqueous decoction inhibited cervical cancer JTC26 cell line by 70%-90%. Moreover, both malic acid and potassium malate in papaya had high inhibition rates on ascites carcinoma in mice. Scallops are sweet in taste, warm in nature, warm in the middle and appetite, and have a strong effect of tonifying the five organs. In recent years, scientists have found that the silver-white oil layer of scallops contains an anti-cancer ingredient date 6-thioguanine, which can effectively treat acute leukemia and other cancers. Papaya with scallops, both of which complement each other, can not only soothe the muscles and channels of middle-aged and old-aged breast cancer patients, but also supplement the body’s need for high-quality protein, polyunsaturated fatty acids, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine and a variety of vitamins, which is an ideal anti-cancer tonic food for breast cancer patients.