Breast cancer diet introduction

In today's society, more and more women are suffering from breast cancer. Most of the reasons are due to the pressure of life and work and the neglect of breast health in daily life, which is a very wrong practice. Diet is also very important for breast cancer. Let’s take a look at the dietary considerations for breast cancer. I hope this helps you all.

What foods are good for breast cancer?

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-breast cancer effects, such as seahorses, horseshoe crabs, cobra meat, sperm whale oil, toad meat, crabs, red snappers, clams, oysters, hawksbill turtle meat, kelp, asparagus, and agar-agar.

(2) It is advisable to eat more foods that can enhance immunity and prevent recurrence, including mulberries, kiwis, asparagus, pumpkin, coix seeds, green beans, yam, mushrooms, dried shrimps, crabs, herring, prawns, and snakes.

(3) For swelling, it is recommended to eat coix seed, loofah, red bean, taro, grape, lychee, water chestnut, crucian carp, catfish, mackerel, kelp, loach, yellow catfish, and snail.

(4) For swelling and pain, nipple retraction, it is recommended to eat fennel, chopped green onion, shrimp, sea dragon, sperm whale, tangerine cake, grapefruit, horseshoe crab

What foods should you avoid if you have breast cancer?

(1) Avoid smoking, drinking, coffee and cocoa.

(2) Avoid spicy foods such as pepper, ginger, cinnamon, etc.

(3) Avoid eating fatty, fried, moldy, or pickled foods.

(4) Avoid eating irritating foods such as roosters.

Dietary principles for breast cancer patients:

1. Emphasize balanced nutrition and focus on strengthening the body and replenishing the deficiency

Internal deficiency is the main contradiction in the occurrence and development of breast cancer patients. Cancer is caused by deficiency, and cancer is caused by deficiency. There is excess within deficiency, and deficiency is the root cause. The purpose of diet therapy is to ensure that breast cancer patients have adequate nutritional supplements, improve the body's disease resistance, and promote the patient's recovery. The general principle should be to strengthen the body and replenish the deficiency. Therefore, "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" says: Eat grains, meat, fruits and vegetables to your heart's content, but don't eat too much, or you will damage your body. Under the guidance of the general principle of strengthening the body and replenishing the deficiency, the diet therapy for breast cancer patients should be nutritious, diversified and balanced. Just as it is said in the "Inner Canon of Medicine": "Five grains for nourishment, five fruits for assistance, five animals for benefit, and five vegetables for fullness." If you get biased, it will do harm rather than good.

2. Be familiar with the nature and flavor of food, and emphasize the differentiation of symptoms and the application of food

Breast cancer is like other diseases. Patients have different yin and yang imbalances, cold and heat, deficiency and excess. Food also has four properties and five flavors: hot, cold, warm, cool, spicy, sweet, bitter, sour and salty. Heat syndrome should be treated with cooling, while cold syndrome should be treated with warmth; the five flavors enter the mouth and each has its own destination: sweet enters the spleen, pungent enters the lungs, salty enters the kidneys, bitter enters the heart, and sour enters the liver. Spicy flavors are warm and dispersing, such as ginger and scallion; sweet flavors are mild, such as yam, water chestnut, and maltose; bland flavors are penetrating, such as winter melon and coix seed; sour flavors are astringent, such as black plum and hawthorn; salty flavors are softening, such as seaweed, kelp, and oysters, etc.

3. Choose anti-cancer foods in a targeted manner

Medicine and food have the same origins. Some foods have both therapeutic and anti-cancer effects and can be selected and used in a targeted manner. People use it with cloves and persimmon calyx to treat esophageal cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, etc. Experiments have confirmed that it has an inhibitory effect on mouse transplanted tumors caused by carcinogenic viruses. Foods in our daily life, such as garlic, soy products, green tea, etc., are also good anti-cancer medicines.

From the above we know a lot about the dietary considerations for breast cancer. Diet therapy has a great effect on patients, so in daily life, we must adhere to a reasonable diet and balanced nutrition. If you really have a friend who is suffering from breast cancer, then we must take extra care of her and provide her with perfect guidance and suggestions on diet.