Diet care for breast cancer patients

Dietary care methods for breast cancer patients. The occurrence of breast cancer is a great harm to female friends. I believe everyone knows the seriousness of this disease. This disease will make women feel that their dignity is greatly affected. The most important thing is that this disease will affect women’s physical health, so after getting this disease, you must treat it as soon as possible. Of course, you must also pay attention to daily dietary care.

1. Eat less fat

Breast cancer patients should eat light food and eat less fat. Although fat is the main source of calories for the human body, it should not be consumed excessively. Long-term high-fat diet can easily lead to melanoma, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. In addition, cancer patients often experience nausea, vomiting, aversion to greasy food, and poor digestion during treatment or disease progression, so they should adopt a low-fat diet.

2. Proper intake of protein

During the treatment of breast cancer patients, some drugs may cause digestive tract reactions, leading to weakened digestive function, or tumors may increase body consumption and cause malnutrition or even cachexia. Many people blindly adopt high-protein diets, but they do not know that high-protein diets will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, weaken the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function, and are not conducive to the treatment of tumors.

3. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits

It is best for breast cancer patients to eat more fruits and vegetables, because these foods contain a lot of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, etc. Studies in recent years have found that they have antioxidant effects, can scavenge free radicals, block the synthesis of carcinogens nitrosamines, inhibit the degeneration of squamous epithelial cells and the occurrence of cancer cells, and also have the effects of enhancing the body's immune function and promoting ulcer healing.