Do not Want to Cancer? Expand Eating Fat

Not many know the importance of the role of fat for the body, especially in people with cancer. Apparently, cancer patients often require more fat portions than normal people, to prevent the growth of cancer cells.
When someone is declared cancer, energy needs for his body can be 150 percent more than healthy people. Energy requirements in cancer sufferers should also include 25-30 percent of calories per kilogram of body weight.

Differences also appear in the fat intake required for people with cancer and healthy people. Cancer cells require glucose as the main fuel to grow and stay away from fat because it can stop them from growing.
"In people with cancer, fat is propagated up to 2 grams per day for cancer cells to stop growing, so people with cancer are advised high-fat diet so that cancer cells can not live and eventually give energy to normal cells," said clinical nutrition specialist, DR. dr. Fiastuti MSc, SpGK to VIVA.co.id, recently.
However, it should be noted that the required fat is not just any fat. Fat is divided into three saturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, and monounsaturated fats. Needs on cancer sufferers, should be propagated from unsaturated fat.
"Monounsaturated fats from avocados and olive oil and polyunsaturated fats from fish, especially marine fish and omega 3. Well, these omega 3 are important consumed by cancer patients to the ability of cancer cells to grow can be stopped," he said.
Omega 3 itself is also proven to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. Therefore, omega 3 into unsaturated fat that is anti-inflammatory.
"Because it is anti-inflammatory, omega 3 is good for preventing infections in cancer patients, and omega 3 has an anti-catabolic effect, so cancer patients can not easily lose muscle mass as well as proven to improve therapeutic effects," he said.