- Avoid eating refined starches. Foods that contain refined starches include white breads, white-flour tortillas and many breakfast cereals. Also avoid sugary foods and desserts, such as cookies, cakes and candy. Sugary foods as a regular part of one's diet have been found to significantly raise one's chances of developing and dying from cancer, and generally contribute to poor health and an increased risk of developing or other diseases, such as diabetes and high blood pressure--certainly not desirable if one is already struggling with stomach cancer.
- Similarly, stay away from red meat, including beef, veal, lamb, and pork. For protein, incorporate small portions of chicken and fish into your daily diet instead. Like sugary foods, inclusion of too much red meat or fatty foods into one's diet can significantly increase one's risk of getting and exacerbating cancer---and lead to overall poorer health.
- Whole grains should be eaten regularly by stomach cancer patients for their dietary fiber. Foods that contain dietary fiber include whole-grain breads, whole-grain cereals, quinoa, whole-wheat pastas and oatmeal. Dietary fiber helps clean out the stomach, colon and intestine, thereby preventing carcinogens from prolonged exposure to these areas. This may contribute both to preventing stomach cancer as well as to containing it, to a degree, once it has already developed.
- Besides being the key to a balanced diet, fruits and vegetables contain fiber---as already discussed, a dietary must for stomach cancer patients. Try to incorporate new vegetables and new fruits into your diet. When is the last time you tried kale, a mango or some spaghetti squash? How about loganberries, parwal, tinda or artichoke?
