Dr Manish Singhal - The best Cancer Specialist in Delhi
Healthy Living
Cancer is curable the risk of cancer can be reduced with proper medications, precaution and preventions by adding healthy and hygienic things into your habit and excluding those unhealthy and harmful habits.
Eat Healthy
Our health mainly depends on what we eat, how we eat, the amount of the food we eat along with the work out we do to stay fit. There’s a golden rule to a long life and that’s being active. A good health is the result of a good nutrition diet. The following tips will help you making your diet health and fill with nutrition. Diets high in fruits can lower the risk for stomach & lung cancer. Add antioxidants, low fat foods in your diet.
A proper diet to prevent the risk cancer should be similar to the following diet chart.
| Meal Time | Diet |
|---|---|
| Breakfast | Add fresh fruit, seeds, and nuts to your whole grain, low-sugar breakfast cereal (such as oatmeal). |
| Lunch | Eat salad filled with your favorite beans and peas or other combo of veggies. Add lettuce, tomato, and avocado to a whole grain sandwich. Have a side of carrots, sauerkraut, or fruit. |
| Snacks | Grab an apple or banana on your way out the door. Dip carrots, celery, cucumbers, jicama, and peppers in hummus. Keep trail mix made with nuts and dried fruit on hand. |
| Dinner | Add fresh or frozen veggies to your favorite pasta sauce or rice dish. Top a baked potato with broccoli, sautéed veggies, or salsa. |
| Dessert | Choose fruit instead of sugary desserts. |
| Food | Things to Eat | Things to Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Kidney Beans, Chickpeas (Black & White), Lentils | ||
| Cookies | ||
| Crackers | ||
| Brown Rice, rice | ||
| Cakes | ||
| Peanut butter | ||
| Muffins | ||
| Evaporated milk | ||
| Herbs And Spices | ||
| Pizza dough (It has hydrogenated oil) | ||
| French fried | ||
| 100% vegetable and fruit juices | ||
| Mixed vegetables, green beans, mushrooms | ||
| Hard Taco Shells | ||
| Vegetables and fruits | ||
| Limit saturated fats from red meat & dairy products to 10% of your daily calories | ||
| Fried Chicken | ||
| Salads | ||
| Eggs | ||
| Whole-wheat and corn tortillas | ||
| Reduced-fat cheeses |
Keep In Mind
Avoid processed meat like Bacons, Sausages, Salami& Pepperoni as there’s a link between these products & the risk of cancer.
Gaining weight increases the risk of cancer like; bowel, breast, prostate, pancreatic, endometrial, kidney, gallbladder, esophageal, and ovarian cancers. Try not to become underweight as well.
risk of colon, endometrial and postmenopausal breast cancer.Be physically active for at least 30 min a day to reduce the
Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet alone, instead of using supplement protein powders, tablets etc.
Mothers should breastfeed their babies for up to 6 months, these babies have less chances of being overweight when they grow up.
After the treatment, cancer survivors should follow the recommendations for cancer prevention timely & strictly.
Maintain a food dairy
A daily log of what you eat, drink will help you maintaining your diet, weight and health properly. This is can be helpful when you are out of town for business or pleasure purposes. The dairy will help you in reminding the amount of calories to intake.
