9Foods to fight Cancer - Medsol Hospital

Healthy Food 

If you are receiving or recovering from cancer treatment, you need to take extra precautions to protect yourself from foodborne illness, which can be severe or even deadly.Certain foods are more likely to cause illness than others, such as uncooked fruits and vegetables, raw or undercooked meat and seafood, and unpasteurized dairy products.

 Here are suggestions  patients tend to like:

Fresh fruit:

The best choices are fruit that is refreshing, easy to eat and high in water content. Melons, berries, pineapple, bananas, pears and canned or jarred fruit in their own juices are all popular.

Eggs (cooked):

 Eat only cooked eggs (scrambled, hard boiled, omelettes). Raw eggs are unsafe, even dropped into a smoothie.

Ginger
Fresh, raw ginger has a number of very important benefits in cancer. It is a terrific anti-inflammatory agent in the body and reduces the effects of COX-2. This produces benefits throughout the body and especially in the gut, reducing rates of cancer spread

Nuts
Six cracked brazil nuts will give you your daily selenium; 100 to 200 mcgs is the goal. Selenium is a very potent anti-cancer agent.

Peppermint

Peppermint hard candies or peppermint tea not only taste good and relieve dry mouth, they also may help manage nausea

Garlic 
It is a truly wonderful food. Active ingredients like allicin seem to act to stop the spread of cancer in a number of ways, for example by stopping blood supply formation for tumours.

Oily Fish
Fish oil will provide long chain omega-3, a powerful anti-inflammatory in the body that minimizes COX-2 and its abilities to drive localised negative hormones called eicosanoids which cause inflammation - driving cancer and metastases. Omega-3 has been shown to re-lengthen telomeres, which shorten when you have cancer putting the DNA structure at risk and reducing longevity

Be choosy with fruit
Your small intestine can only absorb so much fructose a day, and some fruits have more of it than others, such as melons, papaya, mango, apples and pear. You don't have to avoid these fruits completely to prevent discomfort, just don't eat too many of them on the same day.

Drink lots of water
Dehydration worsens symptoms of nausea, vomiting and fatigue. Don't be afraid to drink water even if you're having diarrhea it doesn't make it worse, but instead helps replenish what your intestine is losing.

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