The patients who are undergoing cancer therapy and who have completed therapy is recommended to consume a healthy diet with balanced nutrition. Several studies have shown that cancer patients who consume healthy foods during therapy is generally more resilient to face the side effects of therapy Sometime during the therapy, emerging side effects such as nausea, loss of appetite so that patients sometimes difficult to follow healthy eating. Therefore, if the patient has it immediately discuss with your doctor and dietician.
Some cancer therapies can work effectively in patients with high body resistance that is obtained from the nutritional adequacy. Eating healthy foods is very useful for the health of muscles, build a network of new cells, keeping away from invasive infections. Indeed, there is no guarantee that after eating with a healthy menu, cancer will not recur again. Because the origins kankerpun hitherto undiscovered, only to regulate our food, it becomes immune system stronger, we are spared from excess cholesterol, increased blood sugar, blood becomes thicker, the instability of hormones, etc.. Where it all are several contributing factors of cancer recurrence. At least if we are healthier and more independent will not interfere with / depend on others, can perform useful activities. Also low-fat foods will help us to control weight so as not to overdo it. Cancer patients are encouraged so that their weight does not rise excessively and control his blood pressure. Should consume the food is as follows:
• Consumption of adequate vegetables and fruits (4-5 kinds each day). For example, apples, papaya, avocado / kiwi / mango, guava red / strawberry / dragon fruit, oranges, etc.. Red amaranth, green amaranth, ginseng, papaya leaf + flower papaya, broccoli, beets, carrots, etc.. Choose vegetables and fruits are brightly colored and do not consume the kinds of vegetables and fruits are the same in the long term. Preferably in combination for the body but not the excess of certain substances other deficiency. Vary the colors of fruit and vegetables.
• If the consume food sources of carbohydrates, choose complex carbohydrates, such as brown rice, whole wheat bread
• Expand marine fish meal (try not to eat squid, crab, milkfish), if chicken, buy free-range chicken or organic chicken. If forced to eat red meat (beef), choose low-fat. In a study mentioned that eating red meat as much as five to six times a week increases cancer risk. To reduce the risk, the U.S. National Cancer Institute advise us to limit fat consumption hingga30%. But according to research to get the anti-cancer effects, try to consume fat approximately 10-15% only. Or better not at all. If I was not eating red meat again since getting cancer.
• If the consume milk and other dairy select low-fat or soy milk. Select a plain yogurt. Other processed soy is also good, such as tofu, tempeh.
• We recommend that you begin to reduce the sugar (honey may be substituted if forced), foods that contain nitrites, preservatives, dyes, salted, smoked.
• Reduce fried. Carbohydrate-containing foods such as french fries / potato chips will stimulate the formation of carcinogenic compounds called acrylamide. In potato / fried potato chips this compound more than the other fried foods.
• Avoid cooking foods with a high temperature.
• If forced to eat fried food, use cholesterol-free oils such as canola oil. Disposable directly discharged, hence saving battery life just because they’re expensive at all (2 liter to Rp. 70,000) I usually do, if Canola Oil hard to find in supermarkets around the home with Olive Oil was forced to use (this is much more expensive, usually for the salad dressing) is also very use immediately discarded.
• Avoid alcohol and drink soft drinks. Better to drink 8 glasses of water a day
• Limit the tasty but healthy snacks, like cake, candy and various desserts. Replace snacks with for example: corn on the cob, boiled peanuts, edamame boiled, chestnuts, and legumes / beans.
• When making a salad vegetable dressingnya just use olive oil mixture. Do not wear that high in fat.
FOOD CONSUMPTION DURING MY undergoing chemotherapy:
Here is my experience eating during their chemotherapy. Since before undergoing conventional treatment (in medicine, namely radiation and chemotherapy) my body is very weak condition (weight loss up to 16 Kg, breast perforated 11 cm diameter, almost paralyzed state, smaller feet, in constant pain), then when it is advisable to immediate radiotherapy I eat rather a lot of carbohydrates and protein for rapid weight increases. Not embrace a specific diet but still there are vegetables and fruits. So when undergoing radiotherapy process, I did not experience any side effects. Only when the last radiotherapy leukocytes decreased to 2500. It’s not too bad condition. And HB, I also did not drop, the level 12 +. still good. Once finished Radiotherapy I (as much as 10x) where I had a better condition (pain is reduced), I slowly began to organize food for chemotherapy preparation and subsequent Radiotherapy (38x). Here I choose a diet with how food combining.
Why I chose this, because the eating arrangements follow the body’s metabolic cycle, so that the process of food digestion, absorption and utilization of nutrients for the body, as well as food waste disposal take place effectively. So that all organs of the body can work in their capacity, and no work overload, because when the work overload of the body organs will be exhausted. Alerts include: increased blood sugar levels (from the pancreas is wrong) or cholesterol / high blood triglycerides (such as interference with the bile), the body’s metabolic processes take place continuously for 24 hours. But for 8-hour cycle that occurs most active. Namely:
At 04:00 to 12:00: The cycle of food waste disposal
At this time, the menu’s most suitable food in the morning is fresh fruit, can of fruit pieces, fruit juice, fruit salad, lassi (fruit juice + plain yogurt). For the sweetener can be added madu.Buah prepare ready-made energy, in the form of fruit sugar which is easily digested and absorbed efficiently, without the need for energy metabolism is too big. This is consistent with the metabolic cycle that is still in the disposal cycle. Because of easy to digest, then fresh fruit more quickly leaves the stomach, so it is easy to hunger. So between 1-2 hours and then we can take the next fruit. This is to keep the blood sugar concentration to keep us berenergy.Untuk my morning fruit consumption is as follows:
• Should, starting with warm water mixed with lemon juice on waking. Since I often Chemo, then my digestion does not take it anymore when waking to drink lemon juice mixed with warm water. So every morning starting at 06 300, I drink apple juice (unsweetened any). If I, apple juice becomes mandatory every morning because of this prop hunger. 07,300 Hours / 8:00 I eat papaya fruit slices. It is also mandatory. In order not hungry. 09.00 / 09:30, I ate whatever fruit juice, can: guava juice + honey, lessi strawberry, melon juice, avocado juice + a bit of palm sugar, etc.. 10.30, can be interspersed with soy milk, or one small bowl of boiled beans, boiled edamame, or a piece of boiled sweet. 11:30 am, eat more fruit juice, can be anything. But during my Chemo avoid eating bananas and mangoes because my stomach acid is not strong. If the durian fruit has not ever eat again since I had cancer.
At 12:00 to 21:00: the cycle of food digestion
During the day is the best time to consume animal protein menu, rather than at night. While at lunch and dinner our bodies still in the cycle of food digestion, but animal foods take much longer than the starch digestibility (animal 4-6 hours, starch 2-3 hours). So, if we eat animal protein for example in at 19.00 then the possibility of undigested food that’s not all perfect when the cycle has moved into the absorption cycle (21:00 hours). As a result, undigested food will not rot and become toksin.Untuk meals daytime I was rotein (can be chicken or fish) + vegetables I use this menu if no Chemo or the body is fit when finished Chemo. If I’m tired a lot of activity in the morning then at lunch, I add the rice meskipu not much. all afternoon and evening so that there is power. Actually this is deviating from the food combining. In the afternoon starting at 17:30 I eat vegetables until 21:00 hours. At this hour, I often eat the leaves of aloe vera saaya buy at the supermarket. I use aloe vera leaves are large (on the Hero, Carrefour) and then I peeled, take meat only, washed using boiled water is warm, then I eat it without using sugar or sweeteners of any kind, point to avoid sprue and heat in the throat in during Chemo.
21:00 to 4:00 am: absorption of nutrients Cycle
Can drinking herbal tea / green tea before bed. If there is still work nights and felt hungry, I eat fruit. Can apples, grapes, or fruit are available dikulkas.
A diet like this is what I wear every day, being Chemo or not. And God willing, will still be my life forever. Because for me, such a diet has proven to increase endurance, seemed to me certain conditions are healthier than people without cancer. If within a month of my men there must be a permit because I was sick until now have never Alhamdulillah. (Meaning more stamina, Alhamdulillah, never had the flu, dizziness and other ailments and other complaints). Also, when compared Chemo last year, I was stronger this year when Chemo me more (9 times) and drugs also incorporated more (4 kinds of drugs, so that Chemo lasted 12 hours). Because at the time of Chemo in 2006, I raised the concentration of weight, then even eat vegetables and fruit, but do not follow the diet strictly food combining. Even this diet still helps me, because during Chemo in 2006, I also did not experience any side effects hair loss only, and never once I went down to stay leukocytes 500. and even then I only feel the weak only. But the doctor advised me to stay 2 days to avoid infection. After it all went normal. Only on 5th Chemo and 6 knees and ankles a little sore when to run. This lasted until 4 months after completion of Chemo. But Alhamdulillah, for Chemo this time, with a strict diet, I did not experience significant side effects. Only hair loss (broken?). The skin is also not experience drought or change color, as well as the nail does not have masalah.Dan leukocyte-ngedrop ngedrop not very. Most go down well only until 2000. And then I just felt tired. But after the injection Neupogen (in 2006, to raise me make use of GRANOSITE leukocytes, but these are expensive ± Rp. 1.200.000, if Neupogen costs Rp. 830 000, -) straight day later rose more than 10,000 leukocytes.
While undergoing chemotherapy, I was also not given any extra vitamins from the doctor, do not eat any supplement. I just rely on diet alone, plus to protect my kidneys 2x a week drinking each of ginger, turmeric and so not bitter kencur plus rice. Also 2x a week drinking white turmeric.
Food Combining diet that I follow it, not that I recommend to patients with other cancers. This is just sharing the experience alone. There are many other dietary patterns, which may be suitable for cancer patients, please try. I want to underline here is that we already have cancer, the pattern of our lives have changed. Of course this changed towards better things, do not carelessly eating. And do not feel suffering because they can not eat as good as it used to be able to just enjoy the food we eat. There is a saying that the enjoyment of food was limited to the tongue, after that everything seemed the same. The most important thing, right after the entrance to the stomach, the food is not beneficial for tubuh.Meskipun with diet arrangement does not guarantee no recurrence of cancer, but still there is another advantage if more regular life, so more fresh bodies, are not quickly achieved, skin so much shine despite being beaten with drugs that contain radioactive.

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