Four Foods Cancer Patients Should Try for a Healthier Lifestyle

culled from:wobi.com

If you are a patient being treated for cancer, eating a healthy diet and living a healthier lifestyle will help you get through the treatments and hopefully recover more quickly. Here are four foods that can help you do just that.
Cruciferous Vegetables
The cruciferous vegetable family are rich in beta-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, folate, minerals, and C, E, and K vitamins. Glucosinolates are also found in this vegetable family, which are the chemicals that contain sulfur and create the aroma and bitter flavor of these vegetables. The glucosinolates are broken down when cruciferous vegetables are prepared, chewed, and digested, and the compounds that result have been found to slow down cancer development in studies done on rats and mice. Other studies have shown promising results in the consumption of cruciferous vegetables in the prevention of cancer. Examples of this vegetable family are kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, turnip greens, Brussel sprouts, arugula, bok choy, horseradish, radishes, rutabaga, watercress, collard greens, and wasabi.
Turmeric
Turmeric is an Indian spice with one of its main ingredients being curcumin. It has been shown to slow down tumor cell proliferation, decrease inflammation, slow down the transformation of cancer cells from normal cells to tumor cells, help the body destroy cancer cells that have mutated so they can’t spread through the body, and also keep additional blood supplies from forming that support cancer cell growth.
Fish
When cancer patients are diagnosed, their survival rates are shown to be better when they have higher Vitamin D levels than normal. Cancer patients with higher Vitamin D levels also remain in remission for longer than cancer patients who are deficient in Vitamin D, according to a new study. Vitamin D is acquired when exposed to sunlight, from food, and from supplements. Fish such as salmon are at the top of this list when it comes to foods that contain Vitamin D.
Green Tea
There is some evidence that green tea may be effective in destroying cancer cells, though that is not to say that it will prevent cancer. Green tea has a biological agent that changes the metabolism of some cancer cells. A cell needs to be able to metabolize to continue to grow and multiply and when it can’t, it dies.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer and are undergoing treatments and these above-mentioned foods are not a part of your diet, you should try them and see if they make a difference. At Perseus PCI, Inc., we offer a unique immunotherapy treatment for cancer and recommend that our patients eat a healthy diet and live a healthy lifestyle.