What can't liver cancer patients eat? What foods can protect the liver and prevent liver cancer?

Drinking alcohol and eating kimchi often increases the risk of liver cancer

On September 9, at a health lecture held at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Professor Zhang Dazhi, a well-known infection expert and director of the Department of Infection at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, warned that people carrying the hepatitis B and C viruses may have a 3-5 times higher chance of developing liver cancer than ordinary people if they have long-term contact with alcohol, often stay up late, and often eat pickles and braised dishes.

Clinical studies have shown that nitrite can activate liver cancer cells. Once the liver function is damaged, liver cells will become diseased. If you eat pickled vegetables and braised dishes for a long time, nitrite will become a catalyst that accelerates the canceration of liver cells.

Therefore, eating kimchi for a long time is a direct factor leading to early liver cancer. So what foods can protect the liver? What should liver cancer patients not eat?

Natural foods that protect the liver

In terms of liver care, fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants and natural minerals that can prevent cells from being damaged by free radicals. You should consume more of them, and you don't have to stick to green fruits and vegetables. Green, red, and yellow fruits and vegetables contain lutein. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower are anti-cancer pioneers. You can choose and replace them more often when eating.

When cooking, it is healthier to have two vegetable dishes, one vegetable soup, and one fish or meat dish per meal than to have only one vegetable dish and the rest are meat and fish. Replace white rice with whole grain rice or brown rice and sweet potato rice. In addition to the main meal, you can drink a glass of vegetable and fruit juice, which has a more complete range of nutrients.

The following are some foods that liver cancer patients cannot eat:

1. Avoid smoking and drinking.

4. Avoid moldy or pickled foods, such as moldy peanuts, moldy soybeans, salted fish, pickled vegetables, etc.

3. Avoid spicy foods such as onions, garlic, peppers, chili peppers, cinnamon, etc.

6. Avoid foods that are strong in taste, too sour, too sweet, too salty, too cold, too hot, or contain too much gas.

2. Avoid overeating, greasy food, salted, smoked, grilled and fried food, especially burnt or charred food.

5. Avoid foods that are bony, rough, hard, sticky, indigestible, and contain crude fiber.

7. People with ascites should avoid foods high in salt and water.

8. People with low coagulation function, especially those with bleeding tendency, should avoid scorpions, centipedes, and foods and Chinese medicines that have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Warm reminder: Everyone who has been sick has their own opinions on what is the best diet for liver disease. Everyone's nutritional status, immunity, and condition are different. If you can go to the nutrition consultation clinic first and discuss with the nutritionist, you can develop a complete diet plan based on your personal situation, which will be most beneficial to you.