Healthy Lifestyle Tips To Prevent Cancer And Recurrence

Illustration of a Healthy Lifestyle (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - A healthy lifestyle can prevent cancer while reducing the risk of recurrence or recurrence of cancer. Sometimes, cancer patients who have been declared cured do not pay attention to their nutritional status.

Likewise, healthy people who have not been diagnosed with cancer, they tend to be free to eat any food regardless of the risk.

"Prevention is cancer prevention and cancer recurrence prevention (recurrence) by taking into account their respective nutritional status," said Clinical Nutrition Specialist at the University of Indonesia (RSUI) dr. Wiji Lestari, M.Gzi, Sp.GK(K) quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday, February 28.

Therefore, Wiji recommends always eating healthy and balanced nutritious foods for the sake of body health. He also emphasized always to monitor weight so that it remains normal and avoids the risk of obesity.

"Obesity is a risk of cancer, such as breast cancer, endometrium cancer, esophagean cancer. If weight is not monitored, this could increase the risk of certain cancers," said Wiji.

Wiji also reminded to avoid consumption of carcinogenic agents, such as alcohol, salted fish, foods containing aflatosine, packages and salt-high foods, to high-calorie foods.

To prevent the risk of cancer, you should limit eating processed meat to a minimum. Avoid also processing red meat at high temperatures because high temperatures can produce harmful materials.

When processing red meat, avoid cooking it with live fire exposure and for too long. In addition, it is better to throw away the food supply because it is carcinogenic.

"Red meat that is preserved or processed with many additional ingredients is prohibited for cancer patients with the risk of malnutrition or already experiencing severe malnutrition," said Wiji.

Especially for cancer patients or have had cancer, consume no more than three servings of red meat per week. In addition, limit the consumption of processed meat foods to a minimum in order to avoid the risk of cancer or complications of cancer comorbidities.

Finally, Wiji suggests doing physical activity regularly and avoiding a seditary lifestyle. A sedentary lifestyle is a person's lifestyle that tends to be lazy to move or do physical activity.

"Physical activity must be active so that the body is healthier and avoids the risk of cancer, in addition to maintaining a healthy diet," concluded Wiji.