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Depending on the type of cancer you have and your treatment plan, you may need to follow a special diet at different times during treatment. Check with your doctor or dietitian to clarify any eating restrictions or questions you may have. And follow the advice you've been given to ease discomfort and aid in your healing.
Some dietary restrictions involve terms such as fiber and residue. Fiber and residue may not be food descriptions you thought much about before your cancer diagnosis. To help aid your understanding, let's define the two words. Sometimes used interchangeably, the terms fiber and residue do have different meanings.
Fiber describes the type of carbohydrate in a food that isn't broken down before passing through to your stool. Sometimes people refer to fiber as providing roughage or bulk. For a diet to be high in fiber, it must contain foods that supply substantial amounts of fiber, totaling at least 25 to 35 grams daily. Check the Nutrition Facts on packaged food products or check the recipe nutrition information for the fiber content of foods you eat.
Residue is the material left in the colon after digestion. It includes intestinal cells and breakdown products including fiber from the foods you eat. Increasing the amount of fiber you eat will increase residue and, therefore, the amount of stool you produce.
High-fiber foods are also high-residue foods. And low-residue foods are low in fiber. However, some low-fiber foods contain residue, too. For example, milk is low in fiber but high in residue. The components in milk have a considerable effect on stool production, even though milk contains no fiber.
Information about residue is not listed on Nutrition Facts labels, nor is it usually included in recipe nutrition information. However, any recipe in this cookbook that is low residue is listed that way. Check out the information in 10-Foods for Special Diets to find foods that fit your individual dietary needs.
From "Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook." Text Copyright 2005 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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