Nigerian food for cancer patients is food that is free of sugar, rich in vitamins and omega 3 acids. Food good enough to strengthen the immune system. With cancer and chemotherapy, what is needed is nutritious, healthy, living food not dead or processed foods.
FOODS TO AVOID:
Sugar feeds cancer cells, if you can successfully prevent sugar from entering your body, you would have done yourself a whole lot of good.
Even though animal milk and dairy products are a good source of protein, you do not need them at this time. Stay away from them. Animal milk isn’t great with tumors and wounds and all that. Someone once told us that milk feeds pus. That when you have an injury that starts oozing pus, you need to cut off milk to help heal faster.
That most times people who don’t eat milk, experience the joy of quick healing of cuts and wounds as these dry up and heal faster than normal. I haven’t confirmed it yet but still feel like the protein from milk can be gotten from eating other sources of protein while cancer is being treated.
Dropping milk won’t harm in any way. Just try it. Delete milk, delete white carbs and delete dairy products from your menu plan. Let’s see if you won’t start responding better.
Processed Foods too…. Try your best to stay away from these. Canned, sachets and bottled foods with expiry dates printed and artificial preservatives are not bad as food but for the sake of this moment that you need to respond to treatments positively. Avoid them. Eat fresh and organic foods. Leave cakes and biscuits alone dear. Sodas, even if they call them diet soft drinks, do not drink. Run from beers and dry gin.
In place of canned or sachets or bottles of tomato paste, shop fresh tomatoes and blend.
Instead of canned sardines; shop fresh or dried fish that hasn’t been over processed. Instead of sausages and the ham and the salamis, eat meat from freshly slaughtered animals with fresh blood still on them (Don’t eat the blood please, cook before eating).
When you eat chicken, not long frozen chicken, go for live chickens and turkeys. Instead of baked beans in tomato sauce, eat freshly cooked beans. Instead of white flour, use wheat flour.
Furthermore, While undergoing cancer treatment, conventional treatments respond better when there is good nutrition boosting immunity. Below are nutritious Nigerian foods with their recipes to help you and caregivers make and serve the right meals at all times. Some people have won this battle over cancer and you are going to be one of them soon!.
Very important! Some are survivors today because they didn’t just sit there and let cancer win. They fought with all the have. Fought with treatments and also sacrificed comfort foods and junk for healthy meals. Below is the list of 20 Nigerian food every cancer patient should stick to..
25 NIGERIAN FOODS GOOD FOR CANCER PATIENTS
We are going to categorize these twenty Nigerian foods under vegetables; Proteins; Unrefined Oils and Unprocessed foods.
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VEGETABLES: Garden egg leaf vegetable stew with millet fufu. (Avoid white starch for now). You can also enjoy snail or fish okra soup with unripe plantain fufu. Nigeria is blessed with both green leafy vegetables and many other types of vegetables that can be either briefly cooked or eaten raw.
The nutritious vegetable soups on this blog are so many you can eat everyday for months without exhausting them. Afang soups, edikang ikong soups, Nigerian stews and stir fries are great to serve with healthy Nigerian fufu swallows like wheat meal fufu, brown rice fufu or even serve with boiled unripe plantain, boiled brown rice, boiled red cocoyam, or boiled water yam.
Aside Nigerian vegetable soups and stews. Vegetables like carrots can be enjoyed in vegetable salads. Remember to use olive oil as salad dressing.
Let the mayo and other ketchup dressings rest for now. Don’t worry, very soon, you’ll get well and begin to enjoy all the foods you can’t eat now.
Your health and life is better than a drum of fats on salads. Garden egg stew will be good for you too. You can add cucumbers to your salads, enjoy with Nigerian peanut butter also called pepper Kola or just snack on the cucumbers. Garden egg stew with fresh tomatoes.
Pastas and pounded yam and eba should rest too for now. These are carbs that can convert to different forms of sugar in your system. -
PROTEINS: For good proteins to help you, try these recipes. Fresh fish stew; Eat fresh fish sauce with assorted vegetables: Enjoy tomato stews with mackerel served with boiled beans, boiled unripe plantain, millet agidi Eeko) or delicious moin moin. The process for making millet agidi is same as that of maize agidi, just the color.
Egg sauce with brown basmati rice or normal brown rice With plantain, green vegetable egg sauce served with your brown carbs, boiled and scrambled eggs, egg stews are all great.
Chicken is an excellent source of protein for you right now. You can grill, cook chicken stew, roast chicken, baked chicken, stewed or even boiled and enjoyed with vegetables. Add to your salads (Not fruit salads.Remember you are advised to stay off sugars from now). Even sugars from fruits, sweet fruits are not your very good friends now. Enjoy the birds like turkey, duck, and other kinds of edible birds. You need good doses of proteins right now.
Shrimp and mushrooms should be added to your cooking as many times as possible.
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Unrefined oils are better than bleached palm oil sold as vegetable oil. If you can, cook with coconut oil. Also add coconut to your meals like coconut brown rice, coconut milk moin moin, coconut brown fried rice and even coconut snacks you enjoy after cracking your whole coconuts. You can blend coconuts, add water, sieve and add the milk to almost everything you eat. Unrefined coconut oils are edible too. Good as your salad dressing just the way we use olive oils. Virgin olive oils should be part of your food, Omega 3 oils and
Avoid hydrogenated oils and trans fats. Flaxseed oil and cod liver oils will also provide you with the much needed omega-3-oils.
Don’t forget that fiber is very very important for bowel movement. Regular bowel movement helps cleanse the system. The importance of drinking water and ingesting fiber cannot be over emphasized.
If you can daily eat leafy vegetables, good quantities of vegetables like the ugu leaf (fluted pumpkin), afang and other vegetables, you’d have taken care of fiber needs.
Finally, we have just about three categories above, but they include the 25 Nigerian foods that are good for diabetic patients. Have you seen our 50 Nigerian food ideas for diabetic patients?
Praying for you. GET WELL SOON!