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[D273]Diet After Colon Cancer

by Astrid Bullen, Ast

The Alli Diet is an FDA-approved drug that essentially induces diarrhea as a safe and effective means of weight loss. Let's take a look at a few of the particulars of the Alli Diet: to quote Wikipedia one of Alli's side effects is - "Because orlistat's [the active ingredient in Alli's] main effect is to prevent dietary fat from being absorbed the fat is excreted unchanged in the feces and so the stool may become oily and loose."

The incentive that the Alli Diet pill offers is that even if you cheat on your low fat diet even in the least bit you will experience the fury of the Alli diet pill's side effects. Alli affectionately calls these side effects "treatment effects," using the verbiage found in the Alli Companion Guide. If you're using the Alli diet pill, cheating on your diet just isn't worth the consequences.

Alli, marketed over the counter by GlaxoSmithKline, and under the trade name Xenical by Roche, prevents about 30% of dietary fat from being absorbed. The amount of weight loss will vary among individuals. The primary side effects of the drug are gastrointestinal-related, and include steatorrhea, fecal incontinence, frequent or urgent bowel movements, and flatulence. GlaxoSmithKline recommends that Alli users wear dark pants or keep spare clothes available at work until they "have a sense of any treatment effects."

One nonprofit group, Public Citizen, says Alli has been shown in studies to cause pre-cancerous lesions in the colons of mice. Director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, said while it is not known whether these pre-cancerous lesions will lead to colon cancer, he and other cancer experts do not believe use of the weight loss-drug is a risk worth taking.

The US has been worried about its population's growing beefiness for a long time, expecially since some 65% of adults are overweight or obese. The problem is also starting to take hold in Europe. Alli is expected to become one of the latest wonder drugs on the US market, in spite of its side effects. Potential customers who see the Alli pill as a quick path to weight loss ought to know that it works better alongside traditional weight loss programs such as exercise and light dieting.

When you use Alli diet pills, the excess fat that passes out of your body is not harmful. It actually looks something like the oil on top of a pizza. Learning how to handle the different side effects is an important part of being successful with Alli. Here's how to take control:
Â· Start trimming the fat from your diet before you begin taking Alli. Then choose a day to start taking Alli, such as a weekend day so that you can stay close to home if you experience a treatment effect.
Â· Spread your daily fat gram allowance of 15 grams on average meals eaten throughout the day.
Â· If you feel gassy, the best place to go is the bathroom.
Â· Learn to spot the foods that trigger side effects by using a journal.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in both the USA and Europe, and colon cancer is the most dangerous cancer besides lung cancer. It can be easily cured when it is in its early stages, but the problem is that is rarely shows any signs and symptoms when the tumor is isolated, so it's hard to detect it before it spreads. When it reaches metastasis, or stage IV, the chances of survival drop under 10% because in this phase it has already spread to at least one more organ. It usually spreads to the liver first, and then to the lungs.

It is hard to eliminate the cancer cells when it is in stage four. The medical approach is chemotherapy, because it can treat cancer that has spread, but it has severe side effects and it doesn't always succeed.

Few people know that diet has an important role in cancer, in all types of cancer and in colon cancer too. But remember that diet can prevent it or help the treatment, it can not cure colon cancer alone.
Diet is important for those who don't have colon cancer, because if it is used properly it can prevent it by decreasing the risk factors, or if it's neglected it can seriously increase the risk factors.

One of the main food types that increases the risk factors has proven to be red meat. Doctors were suspecting this for a long time, and recent research has shown that the assumption is correct.
The western diet unfortunately contains too many types of food that increase the risk not only of colon cancer, but of other diseases and disorders too.

The best diet that can prevent a colon cancer or can help the body fight it is a vegetarian diet that contains no fats, and involves eating a lot of fruits and grains, which are natural cancer-fighting substances. Of course, many refuse to eat a fully vegetarian diet. Well at least try to reduce the amount of red meat and fat that you eat to a minimum.
If you just can't stay away from fat foods you can enter a support program that is designed to help people with eating disorders solve their problems.

Remember that diet has an important role in cancer and somewhere later in life you may regret that you haven't followed a healthy diet.

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