Cancer Nutrition Mistakes are there? You can not eat to starve cancer? Soy contains soy isoflavones, breast or ovarian cancer patients can not eat? Therapeutic effect is better than drug therapy?
[Errors] the most nutritious soup cancer patients.
Some people think that nutrition in the soup, give the patient to eat, so doctors often see patients with soup, families eat slag strange scene. In fact, according to scientific tests, nutritional soup only 5% to 10% of raw materials, mainly some vitamins , inorganic salts, most of the nutrients (especially proteins ) are left in the residue in the. Therefore, we recommend patients eat as much as possible to eat soup and slag, unless poor digestion, the disease can not eat residue limit, it had to soup up.
[Errors] can not eat to starve cancer.
Some people think that eating can make tumor cells grow without energy, then "starve", which is wrong, the tumor cells are abnormal cells, they divide abnormally rapid growth and "steal" a normal body cell nutrition . The so-called "starvation diet" can cause the body's nutritional deficiencies, growth and protection of normal cells in the body, so that decreased immunity, increased risk of infection.
[Myth] soy contains soy isoflavones , breast or ovarian cancer patients can not eat.
Natural soy foods (such as tofu , soy milk and other products) isoflavone content is not high, and the effects of estrogen only 1/1000 to 1/100 of it, enough to change the body of estrogen overall level of gynecologic cancer patients no significant effect.
[Myth] therapeutic effect than drug treatment.
Today on cancer prevention and treatment is no special means, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, nutrition therapy and so is an important part of comprehensive cancer treatment. In fact, many foods have some secondary role in cancer, but unfortunately, there is no reliable evidence that a special medical research recipes, food, vitamins, minerals , food additives, herbal product or compound can delay tumor progression, cure or prevention of tumor recurrence. In fact, some of vitamins or supplements may affect the effectiveness of cancer treatment.
The main role is to provide the food needed to survive a variety of nutrients the body to improve the body's immune system, improve physical fitness. Diet does not mean anti-cancer therapy. So, if you get some "diet recipe" message, it may be timely to consult a doctor to know whether the anti-tumor effect, at least not affect tumor therapy.