Cancer Diet: Feasting on the Four Food Groups - A Mesothelioma Patient's Guide to Nutrition Written by Maggie Kay
At some point during our childhood we have all been told to eat our vegetables. Forcing down tasteless green beans and brussels sprouts were supposed to make us taller and stronger. Well, so it is for mesothelioma patients. Diet is often an overlooked subject for cancer patients, but eating right nutritional foods for strength and energy is just as important as taking proper medication.Mesothelioma patients undergoing treatment must follow a special cancer diet devised by their nutritionists. Cancer diets involve eating correct amounts of protein and calories as well as drinking right amount of water to keep ailing body replenished and energized. The body needs plenty of nourishment when it is going through chemotherapy or even when patient is taking certain medications. Doctors and nutritionists may also recommend a special cancer diet because many mesothelioma patients tend to lose their appetites due to worry over their condition. Also, those who are undergoing treatment may choose not to eat because of unpleasant side effects they may experience. Chemotherapy, for example, and even some particular medications may cause an imbalance of nutrients that must be corrected in order to keep body as strong as possible and to keep patient from losing an excessive amount of weight. Other side effects of mesothelioma treatment include nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, a change in sense of smell or taste, and/or constipation. Below are some of important nutrients patients are encouraged to include in their mesothelioma diet:
| | Dangers of the ScaleWritten by HSF Vitamins
A Full Scale War "The scale can be like a lousy personal trainer. It can be giving you bad information. In other words, do not become too dependent on this devilish, little device sitting on your bathroom floor. " It happens every morning when you mosey out of bed, somewhere between time you take off that robe and instant you step into shower. For others, it happens immediately after a workout, as soon as you peel off those sweaty clothes and stand aimlessly in your birthday suit.Then, big moment arrives. The excitement, tension, it all forms a giant knot in your throat. This experience is a lot like playing roulette wheel and you know you have plenty riding on this one. Hence, numbers that come up can spree a variety of reactions. You step onto scale in your bathroom and peek through your fingers at fate staring back at you. To some, you jump up and down like you just hit jackpot. Others shriek as if they’d just crapped out. Well, scale is indeed a useful tool to monitor your weight-loss developments. What other method is there to track specifically how much you’ve progressed in your endeavors to lose weight? Yet, scale can be like a lousy personal trainer. It can be giving you bad information. In other words, do not become too dependent on this devilish, little device sitting on your bathroom floor. Here are two reasons why: * Scales are not perfect. At any given moment, it can go from being your best friend to your worst enemy. If scale isn’t tipping your way, it can throw your entire mental state off mark. Scales can often deceive you into thinking you’re heavier – or lighter – than you actually are. In more case, it’s latter. And by thinking that you’re that far ahead of game, only one you’ll be fooling is yourself. Instead, try going by how your clothes fit on your body or how you feel internally than relying on some imperfect machine. Take a picture of yourself at beginning of month and then at end of month to evaluate progress. Obsession with scale is not unlike other fixations – it’s certainly not healthy.
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