[골프타임즈] Diet plays an important role in cancer treatment. In order to overcome cancer, it is important to eat sufficient calorie energy nutrients such as fat, protein, and carbohydrates. However, if you eat only foods that are known to be good for cancer, or if you eat too many foods that are known to be good for cancer, nutritional imbalances may occur, making it difficult to treat cancer and reducing the effectiveness of treatment.
It is necessary to eat a variety of foods and maintain physical strength, and it is also important to adopt a therapeutic diet such as a high-protein diet, a low-sodium diet, a gastrectomy diet, a low-residue diet, and a non-fat diet according to the type of cancer and the patient’s condition.
However, it is practically difficult for cancer patients to take care of their own diet. What’s more, if you receive chemotherapy and radiation therapy following surgery, you may experience discomfort in eating because you lose various appetites, such as indigestion, vomiting, nausea, and stomatitis.
Recently, content related to the diet of cancer patients is pouring out on the Internet such as YouTube. However, the diet recommended on the Internet may not be right for you, and for some, objective information or scientific evidence is not clear, so a wise choice is required.
In this case, if you use a system such as a nursing home that can help you manage your diet, you can get help not only with your diet, but also with your recovery following surgery and managing the side effects of anticancer drugs.
For cancer patients, diet is an important factor to the extent that it is said to be an adjuvant therapy for cancer treatment. Eating well during the treatment period helps to maintain the nutritional status required for treatment and overcomes side effects. It can help reduce the risk of infection, and it also helps to speed up the regeneration of cells damaged by chemotherapy.
If you do not take proper nutrition, your physical strength may decrease and treatment may be more difficult, so it is important to develop the necessary strength for treatment and to manage it with a systematic treatment method to help the regeneration of damaged cells in chemotherapy.
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