Ramadan Tips: Fasting & Cancer
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- Cancer Patients with a strong motivation to fast are usually encouraged to fast as spirituality and being involved in the religious activities plays a major role making patient feel more active.
- Hence patient feels less depressed and isolated.
- Scientific evidence shows fasting activates certain nerve pathways releasing nerve-nourishing factors which enhance mood and relieve pain.
- Fasting beneficially impacts immune system thus enabling cancer growth control.
- Fasting also sensitizes tumor cells and improves the outcome of radiation therapy.
- However cancer patients should consult their Oncologist before a fats.
- Those with metastasis or particularly disseminated aggressive forms of cancer or with history of non-compliance to treatment and those who need to maintain their desired body weight by high calorie protein diet should not fast.
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