Dietary taboos for breast cancer patients: Try to avoid eating high-fat foods

Breast cancer patients should try to avoid eating high-fat and spicy foods.

Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women. Patients should mainly follow the dietary principles for cancer, ensuring balanced nutritional intake while avoiding obesity. Patients should try to avoid eating some high-fat foods, especially processed foods such as fried lamb skewers, fried chicken nuggets, bacon, sausages, preserved eggs, etc., and should also limit the intake of spicy foods such as chili peppers and spicy crayfish. In addition, patients cannot eat moldy food, and drinking alcohol and other irritating beverages are not recommended.

It should be noted that the pathogenesis of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients may be related to estrogen. At this time, it is necessary to reduce the intake of foods or nutritional supplements rich in estrogen. It is not recommended to take nutritional supplements whose ingredients are unknown. At the same time, patients should eat a low-fat diet on weekdays, and it is usually recommended to eat foods rich in high-quality protein, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Good food

Vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, milk, staple food

Fresh shiitake mushrooms, dried shiitake mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots

Be careful with food

Staple food Beverages Spicy food Fried food Pickled food Smoked food

Fried cakes, fried gluten, fried dough sticks, fried cakes

More suggestions

In addition to strictly following dietary taboos, breast cancer patients should also pay attention to the following points:

1. Lose weight to a normal body weight (i.e., body mass index of 18.5-23.9 kg/m2).

2. Adult breast cancer patients aged 18 to 64 should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes of high-intensity aerobic exercise per week, and strength training (large muscle group resistance exercise) at least twice a week. If they have a chronic disease that limits their movement, they should adjust their exercise time and intensity appropriately according to the doctor's instructions, but should avoid being inactive for a long time.

3. Do not smoke and avoid passive smoking.

4. Patients should pay attention to psychological adjustment and establish a good attitude.

5. Follow the doctor's advice for regular checkups. Generally, breast cancer patients should have a checkup every 3 months within 2 years after surgery; every 6 months 3-5 years after surgery; and every year for more than 5 years after surgery, for life.