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Diet during and after breast cancer treatment: protein, food safety, nausea tips, and the evidence-backed risk-reduction pattern.
No diet causes or cures breast cancer. What diet does during this illness is keep your body strong enough to finish treatment - and afterwards, it is one of the few recurrence-risk levers actually in your hands.
The evidence-backed pattern for survivors: plenty of vegetables, fruits and whole grains; pulses over red and processed meat; limited alcohol (ideally none); and a healthy weight - postmenopausal weight gain feeds estrogen-driven risk. Soy foods in normal food amounts are considered safe and possibly protective - soy supplements are a different, unsettled question; ask your oncologist.
The classical Brimhana diet - warm milk, ghee, old rice, moong soup, dates, raisins, pomegranate - suits the rebuilding phases well and conflicts with nothing above.
Written By
Dr. Daksh
BDS
Reviewed By
Dr. Varun Gupta
MD Pharmacology, MBBS
Last updated on
27 Sep 2022 • 06:23 PM (IST)
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