The Best Foods for Stomach Cancer Patients: Patients should eat a balanced diet, minimize processed foods, eat smaller more frequent meals, try liquid snacks, limit irritants. It’s important to eat and drink enough calories and protein to maintain your weight and strength.

Laura Gottschalk, PhD at the American Center for Health Research, says there is ample evidence that the foods we eat can increase the risk of developing several types of cancer, including stomach cancer. The disease is more common in older men, who are at higher risk than women.

An important part of treatment for stomach cancer is a nutritional diet with the correct amount of vitamins, minerals, proteins and calories to maintain strength and aid in the healing process. Stomach cancer patients need a diet low in carbohydrates and sweets and high in protein. Your doctor's advice and that of a registered dietitian can help you determine which foods best meet your nutrition needs.

High-Protein Foods

People suffering from stomach cancer need extra protein and calories. Drinking extra milk and eating more eggs and cheese are good ways to get this protein. For extra calories adding gravies and sauces to your food is recommended, although always check with your doctor to determine what nutritional diet suits you or ask to be referred to a registered dietitian, especially if you are losing weight. 

Increasing the fat content of your foods by adding butter or eating puddings and ice cream can help you with the problem called dumping syndrome, which is a sudden drop in blood pressure, with or without palpitations, and a drop in blood sugar with a resulting feeling of weakness and the need to sit or lie down. 

Stomach cancer patients need extra iron, calcium and vitamin D from their diets. Sardines, cabbage, broccoli, milk, eggs, cheese and bread provide calcium. Vitamin D is found in margarine, butter, oily fish and eggs. The iron in red meat is more easily absorbed by the body than the iron found in fish, soy, egg yolk, leafy green vegetables and dried fruit. 

Smoothies, such as this green tea smoothie, may help when you have a poor appetite.

High-Fiber Foods in Small Portions

While choosing whole grains such as whole wheat bread and whole grain pastas and rice is advised because of their high fiber content, fiber can make stomach cancer patients feel uncomfortably full. Beans and lentils as well as leafy greens and cabbage can have the same effect. It may be necessary to avoid eating too much of these foods at one time. Eat every hour or so to avoid upsetting your stomach and combine one high-fiber food with other foods easy on the stomach, such as soft, bland foods, to give yourself a relatively low-fiber meal. 

Bland Foods

Stomach cancer patients often experience nausea. Eating bland foods such as crackers or dry toast can help you avoid this problem, as can eating food at room temperature to decrease its taste and odor. If a bad taste persists in your mouth between meals, try sucking on a mint or lemon drop.

Clear Liquids

Although sipping clear liquids slowly that are served cold, such as apple juice, broth, tea and ginger ale, can help stomach cancer patients, too many liquids can produce the dumping syndrome. Try eating gelatin or popsicles or limiting your liquid intake to before and after meals.

Try liquid snacks.

Liquid snacks, such as smoothies, may help when you have a poor appetite or feel full quickly, and there are many ways to vary these recipes.

People with stomach problems should eat soft, liquid foods such as porridge, sticky rice, foods like bread, cookies, etc., boiled potatoes, taro or stew in soups. Crushed, steamed or braised fish meat, canned milk, fresh cow's milk, powdered milk, butter, cheese, water, mineral water are also suggested.

Besides paying attention to food, to avoid deterioration, patients should pay attention to dividing meals. Typically, patients lose appetite, gastrointestinal discomfort, so instead of eating 3 meals, you can eat 5, 6 meals, while maintaining adequate calories by adding foods. High in calories. For example, you can try adding olive oil to the soup or adding butter to a smoothie.

Sick people should avoid sweets unless they frequently have a dumping syndrome (a common condition after partial or complete removal of the stomach to treat weight loss). In that case, you can drink some sugar between meals to raise blood sugar.

Tart or Sour Foods

Sweets in general are to be avoided, except if you regularly experience the dumping syndrome after eating. In that case you may want to try getting some sugar between meals to keep up your blood sugar levels. Because stomach cancer patients often have problems with vomiting, eating tart or sour foods, though, can be easier to keep down.

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