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Cancer: A healthy diet play an important role before, during and after cancer treatment. Here are some guidelines from nutritionist that can help cancer patients eat right.

A healthy diet is extremely important during cancer treatment

Diet plays a key rolenot just during cancer treatment in fact, it is important during pre and post treatment as well. During cancer treatment, you need to eat to keep up your strength to deal with the side effects of treatment. Treatments can result in appetite loss as well as weight loss. Before starting the treatment, it is important to maintain the weight or prevent the sudden weight loss. Eating a healthy diet and maintaining weight before treatment helps to stay strong, reduce risk of infection and cope with side effects better. It can also improve the chances of receiving treatments. Generally, a high protein high calorie diet is recommended before the treatment starts which helps in improving the sleep pattern also.

Before treatment one should start focusing on healthy food habits which may help to increase your energy. To prepare yourself and your home for your nutritional needs during cancer therapy, think about the following suggestions:

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Prepare yourself to follow the diet regime throughout the treatment. In the course of cancer treatment immune system becomes weak and patient may fall sick easily. Reduced immunity results in many side effects and food borne illness too. You may have days when you feel hungry, and others when food is the last thing you want. Eat lots of protein and healthy calories. That will keep your body strong and help repair damage from the treatment. To strengthen the immunity, it is important to consume antioxidants rich fruits, vegetables, whole grains including whole wheat flour, millets, beans, eggs, fish, chicken etc.

Food safety during treatment is very crucial to avoid food borne illness.

Cancer and cancer treatment can weaken your immune system and make you more prone to infection. This includes infection from foods. The following are the tips to keep your food safe. During treatment you should also take recommendations from your doctor about what to eat and avoid.

During cancer the body's metabolism called hypermetabolism increases that affect the requirement for high carbohydrate, protein and fat food. High calorie food includes pudding, egg nog, milkshakes, avocado, porridge pulses and legumes, curd, milk, beans, mushroom, chicken, fish and eggs etc.

Sometimes it becomes very difficult to manage the side effects. The side effects are like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, swallowing difficulty, gastritis, taste alterations and appetite loss.

It can be concluded that, though you are not hungry, you have to eat before and during your cancer treatment. Eating well with high protein and high calorie diet is important throughout the treatment to maintain the weight. Talk with your doctor, nurse, or dietitian about any eating problems that might affect you during cancer treatment. They can advise you about how to follow your special diet to cope with eating problems caused by cancer treatment.

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