Eat healthy

Eating too much animal protein and fat has an adverse effect on various bodily processes, as well as being linked to an increased risk of cancer and a worse prognosis for recovery (Castro-Espin C, 2022). That’s not to say that a vegetarian diet is absolutely essential for beating cancer. If you like eating meat, poultry or fish, you can – as long as you make sure that you eat enough fruit, vegetables, and other plant- based foods (Maximova K, 2020).

Whether your choice is vegetarian, vegan, meat, poultry or fish, the most important thing is that your diet contains a proper balance of all important nutrients. For each of the diets described below, we point out the things to which you must pay attention in order to achieve the right balance.

References

1. Castro-Espin C, Agudo A. The Role of Diet in Prognosis among Cancer Survivors: A Systema- tic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dietary Patterns and Diet Interventions. Nutrients. 2022 Jan 14;14(2):348. doi: 10.3390/nu14020348. PMID: 35057525; PMCID: PMC8779048.
2. Maximova K, Khodayari Moez E, Dabravolskaj J, et al. Co-consumption of Vegetables and Fruit, Whole Grains, and Fiber Reduces the Cancer Risk of Red and Processed Meat in a Large Pros- pective Cohort of Adults from Alberta’s Tomorrow Project. Nutrients. 2020 Jul 29;12(8):2265. doi: 10.3390/nu12082265. PMID: 32751091; PMCID: PMC7468967.