Cancer Patients Can Never be Hopeless

March 2, 2009

One of the toughest tests in life that family members could ever experience is to see their loved ones suffering from a serious disease. The burden upon the family is indescribable. It creates an atmosphere of fear, desolation and even hopelessness. Most families who care for their afflicted members face a seemingly insurmountable task of helping such member overcome the trial he is going through. Families who have cancer patients encounter the most difficult phase of living when they always see their son, daughter or parents gradually being overwhelmed by anguish and torment of physical and emotional pains.

But cancer patients can never be hopeless.

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PASS the Pechay , Please

Eric’s mother sighed as once she scraped her son’s untouched cauliflower into the wastebasket. For the hundred times she wondered why Eric didn’t like to eat cauliflower (or any other vegetables, for that matter). Mothers the world over have wondered the very same thing.

Commercials and television programs have often reflected this universal question by making jokes about it, but most nutritionist isn’t laughing. Vegetables contain many necessary vitamins, including A, C, beta carotene, and trace elements. They also contain a great deal of fiber, which helps combat constipation and digestive disorders plus is low in calories, which helps with weight control.

So what is a parent to do when faced with a child who will devour anything as long as it did not grow in the ground?

The younger the child the easier it is to change an attitude, and this is especially true with nutrition. Contrary to how it may seem, children are not born disliking vegetables; it is a learned behavior. Somewhere, somehow, their instinctive taste for vegetables has been lost. What can be done to alter this behavior?

Start from Birth

The first step to a good nutrition begins with you child’s first foods. Try to delay giving your infant to solids until at least 3 to 6 months of age. When you do begin solid foods, make your own. Some brands of commercials baby foods add salt, sugar and other flavor enhancers, so right from the beginning a child is taught that a carrots are sweeter or corn is saltier than it really is. To become attuned to a vegetable’s natural taste instead of a processed one, a baby needs to know how it tastes in its natural state.

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