Trouble has come to your home, and someone from your loved ones or you yourself get sick with cancer? Do not despair! In addition to the help of medicine, you can independently take measures to combat this ailment.
Along with research on oncological diseases, the debate about proper nutrition and its effect on the development of tumors continues to this day. Some scientists argue that cancer is a genetically determined disease, others - that 35% of all cancer patients provoked the disease by improper diet during their life. Be that as it may, but taken together factors, such as: smoking, a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet, can provoke the appearance and development of a malignant tumor. And if it has already appeared, then it is necessary to carefully revise the way of life.
Many medical books, magazines and online publications insist that in case of cancer it is necessary to switch to a healthy diet - to increase the consumption of healthy foods and reduce the consumption of unhealthy ones. What foods are healthy? Of course, of plant origin. Greens, vegetables and fruits will help both in the prevention of cancer and in the recovery of the body after recovery.
Foods containing a minimum of nutrients should be excluded from the diet for cancer. Of course, they are the most delicious and appetizing, you can leave them on the table in very small quantities, but food rich in vitamins and minerals should still take first place. Some scientists believe that the ratio of healthy to 'tasty but empty' foods in the diet of a person with cancer should be 80:20. That is, 80% of the total food consumed should be foods high in nutrients, while 20% of the meals should be for pleasure.
Contradicting each other, some studies have made headlines in medical publications. They argue that good nutrition can be beneficial in preventing cancer, but if cancer has already developed, then diet will no longer help in the fight against it. This discovery, at least, is alarming. For many people, it will be an incredible result of experiments aimed at finding out whether unhealthy diets can actually accelerate the course of some types of cancer. However, the fact remains that eating raw vegetables and fruits is the most preferred and affordable option in a comprehensive approach to cancer control.
Two contradictory statements about the need to follow a diet in case of cancer for a long time will agitate the minds of scientists, since not enough is known about these diseases. Medical research will continue for more than a year, but the hope remains that one day cancer will be defeated once and for all.
