Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Appetite Changes: Managing Chemotherapy Side Effects

Here's some interesting facts and data sheets to help you through chemo side effects - 

Practical tips to help people with cancer make eating easier, stay strong during chemotherapy and manage appetite changes. Read questions to ask your doctor: click here

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Select Foods that is Plant Based

When you eat various foods, vegetables, and fruits, which is plant based. It’s the best cancer preventing food because these type of food keeps on providing us of rich phytochemicals and antioxidants, which helps in making your cell lesser susceptible.

Do you need a proof? In the rural part of China, there’s a lot of incidence of colon, rectal and breast cancers. They are just fractional rates in the reports in USA. In China, veggies are eaten in greater amounts than the meat.

There’s a recommended servings of food as stated by American Cancer Society, which is at least 5-9 for vegetables and fruits a day, however an average Westerners diet are short on that. Just keep on adding vegetables and fruits into your meals, you shouldn’t have to keep on eating Chinese stir fries, you just need to import the ways of the Chinese. Add up vegetables and fruits in the foods your already eating.

Add up peppers, mushrooms, onions, carrots and zucchini into the meatloaf, stew, soup, and chili and pasta sauce. Meanwhile, make use of meat in small portions.

 

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