Dietary taboos for liver cancer patients

Diet is very important for everyone, especially for liver cancer patients. For patients with poor diet, we should pay more attention to their diet. Liver cancer patients should not eat any irritating and toxic foods. In addition to this, what else do liver cancer patients need to pay attention to in their diet?

1. Vitamins

Vitamin A, C, E, K, etc. have certain auxiliary anti-tumor effects. Vitamin C is mainly found in fresh vegetables and fruits. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A after entering the human body, so liver cancer patients should eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C.

2. Fat and Protein

A high-fat diet can affect and aggravate the condition, while a low-fat diet can alleviate symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distension in liver cancer patients. Liver cancer patients have poor appetite and eat less. If they do not have a balanced diet, they must increase the calories of their diet and eat crude fat that is easy to digest and absorb. Liver cancer patients should eat more foods rich in plant protein, especially high-quality plant protein.

3. Inorganic salts

That is, minerals. Nutritionists divide inorganic salts into two categories: macroelements, such as calcium, sodium, potassium, etc.; trace elements, such as selenium, zinc, iodine, etc. Scientists have found that minerals such as selenium and iron have anti-cancer effects.

4. Balanced Diet

Liver cancer patients consume a lot of energy and must be guaranteed to have adequate nutrition. The simplest way to measure the nutritional status of patients is whether they can maintain their weight. The best way to maintain a normal weight is to maintain a balanced diet, requiring patients to eat more fresh vegetables, and half of which should be green leafy vegetables.

Dietary taboos for patients with liver cancer

(1) Liver depression and spleen deficiency. Avoid eating fatty and sweet foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, fatty meat, milk, fried foods, soy products, pumpkin, red dates, peanuts, chestnuts, etc.; spicy foods, such as leeks, onions, garlic, chili peppers, peppers, prickly ash, mustard, ginger, etc.; avoid eating cold fruits and vegetables, such as raw cucumbers, raw radishes, raw tomatoes, watermelons, pears, raw water chestnuts, bananas, persimmons, etc.; absolutely avoid drinking all kinds of cold drinks, beer, green tea, and coffee.

(2) Damp-heat toxicity syndrome. It is strictly forbidden to eat warm foods, such as peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, leeks, coriander, mustard tubers, pumpkin, sword beans, cooked peanuts, longans, coconuts, bayberries, lychees, apricots, peaches, cherries, walnuts, pomegranates, etc.; it is forbidden to eat fishy and greasy foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chicken, shrimp, crab, quail meat, snake meat, hairtail, eel, carp, grass carp, silver carp, etc.; it is forbidden to drink alcohol, and it is not advisable to drink black tea and coffee.

(3) Blood stasis and toxicity. Avoid foods that are fishy and pungent and that can upset the stomach, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chicken, duck, quail, pork, goat milk, cheese, turtle, mandarin fish, sea cucumber, crab, clam, conch, jellyfish, scallop, lobster, prawn, river shrimp, river crab, snake meat, etc.; avoid pomegranates, persimmons, chestnuts, etc.; absolutely avoid alcohol and strong tea.

(4) Liver and kidney yin deficiency. Avoid hot and spicy foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, rabbit meat, rooster meat, shrimp, crab, goat milk, cow milk, clams, conchs, oysters, snail meat, black fish, snake meat, leeks, garlic, green onions, onions, chili peppers, peppercorns, cooked peanuts, etc.; avoid or eat less rice vinegar, sugar, grapes, sugar cane, bananas, persimmons, pomegranates, black plums, walnuts, etc.; strictly prohibit all kinds of cold drinks, beer, alcohol, strong tea, and coffee.