Lung cancer patients please remember, don't let these 4 misunderstandings harm you!

Nutrition is a topic of concern to cancer patients. There are many misunderstandings about nutrition among cancer patients. The four most common problems are explained below. Cancer patients have a big concern in their daily lives: they are worried that nutrition will promote tumor growth, thus reducing their nutritional intake. What's more, they hope to starve the tumor to death by starving it. The International points out: There is no evidence that nutritional support promotes tumor growth, and this theoretical issue does not need to be considered in actual clinical work. Without nutrition, normal cells cannot perform physiological functions, while tumor cells will still plunder the nutrition of normal cells. As a result, only the patient himself will starve to death, not the tumor cells.

Malnourished people are more likely to develop tumors. Malnourished tumor patients have more complications, lower quality of life, worse clinical prognosis, and shorter survival time. Nutritional support should be the basic treatment measure for tumor patients. In daily life, you should not eat too much or too little, but eat until you are 70% to 80% full.

1. Superstitious about "tonics" and disregard for nutrients

Due to insufficient nutritional knowledge and commercial manipulation, cancer patients often believe in expensive supplements such as "cordyceps", "bird's nest", "ginseng" and "lingzhi", but ignore enteral nutrition agents such as Ansul, Energizer, Energizer, Ruisu and Rueneng.

In fact, the nutritional value of expensive supplements worth tens of thousands of yuan is not better than that of enteral nutrition products worth tens of yuan. Therefore, cancer patients who do not have enough food should first choose enteral nutrition products for oral supplementation.

2. Blindly abstaining from certain foods and being partial to certain foods

"Blindly abstaining from certain foods and believing in partial diets" is a common nutritional misunderstanding among cancer patients. Some people believe that "fish, meat, eggs, chicken, duck, goose" and other foods are irritants that will accelerate tumor growth, and therefore, they should not be eaten. In fact, the above-mentioned animal meat and eggs are excellent sources of protein, which are more comprehensive and balanced than plant protein.

Research has found that increasing the proportion of protein in the diet can significantly improve the physical fitness and quality of life of cancer patients and prolong their survival time. Therefore, cancer patients should first increase their protein intake, and then choose the right protein.

Complete vegetarianism is not good for cancer patients. A combination of meat and vegetables is the right choice. Increase plant protein (beans are the richest), increase the proportion of white meat, and reduce red meat intake. In fact, every animal has red meat and white meat, but the proportions are different. In daily life, we can describe it in a popular way: four-legged animals are red meat, such as pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep; legless animals are white meat, such as fish; two-legged animals are red and white, such as chickens, ducks, and geese.

3. Seeking medical advice when you are desperate

Out of concern for themselves, cancer patients often seek out miracle doctors, medical advice, and nutritional guidance. However, the information they receive is often mixed, true and false, and often based on hearsay, changing orders from day to day, and believing in one thing and doubting another.

In fact, nutrition for cancer patients is a science with a rigorous scientific basis and strict operating procedures. It is recommended that cancer patients go to the hospital regularly, such as every 3 months, to receive dietary consultation, nutrition guidance, nutrition screening and nutrition assessment from nutrition experts.

Develop a good habit of recording nutrition, record your weight and food intake regularly, and take the key to nutrition into your own hands.