Healthy eating foods during chemotherapy

Avoid the following foods:- alcohol (most types, except red wine and good malt whisky)
- bbq or burnt foods
- biscuits & cakes (when not home-made with good ingredients)
- doughnuts
- fast foods
- fizzy drinks
- grapefruit
- margarine: hydrogenated or partly hydrogenated
- processed foods, eg. cheese, sausages, hot dogs, ham
- sweeteners
- white bread
- white refined flour

Highly recommended foods:
- apricots
- artichokes
- asparagus
- avocados
- bananas
- beans
- beetroot
- berries
- blackcurrants
- brazil nuts
- brewer's yeast
- broccoli
- cabbage
- carrots
- Cauliflower
- cereals
- cherries
- citrus fruits including zest (except grapefruit)
- cod
- cranberries
- eggs
- fish
- flaxseed oil
- game
- garlic
- ginger
- grains
- grapes
- halibut
- herring
- kiwi fruit
- lean meat
- leeks
- linseed oil
- mackerel
- melons
- nuts
- oily fish
- olive oil
- onions
- organic food
- parsley
- peaches
- peppers
- pomegranate juice
- poultry
- pulses
- pumpkin
- rhubarb
- rosehip
- salmon
- sardines
- sea bass
- seeds
- sesame seeds
- shark
- shellfish
- shiitake mushrooms
- soya product
- spinach
- spirulina (available in health shops)
- squash
- sunflower seeds
- sweet potatoes
- tea: green and white, herbal teas, rooibos
- tomatoes
- tuna
- turmeric
- vegetables
- wheat germ

Comparison of Hospital Charges for delivery 2010 of 7 hospitals

A - Thomson Medical Centre
B - KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital
C - Gleneagles Hospital
D - Mt Elizabeth Hospital
E - Singapore General Hospital

Daily charges                  
Single Room              A- $380                    C- $418    D-$418        E- $267.50
2-bedded                    A- $226                     C- $248    D- $248  
4-bedded                   A- $175   B- $165   C- $178    D- $178       E- $160.50
                  

Package

F - Mt. Alvernia Hospital                    (2D Normal delivery w epidural)
G - National University Hospital     (2D Normal Vaginal Delivery)
                     
Single room                F- $2013    G- $1620     
Double room              F- $1483
4-bedded                     F- $1281    G- $1190
                 
Other charges                  
Nursery-cot bed      A- $100              
Nursery care             A- $50       B- $70             C- $55 per day   D- $50 per day  
Nursery (inpatient)                                                 C- $85 per day      
Daily Treatment Fee                    B- $34 - $65          
Delivery Fee
(Normal)                                          B- $456.80 - $625.10          
Total (2D)                A- $650      B- $470           C- $636         D- $456         E- $321

*All prices are not inclusive of 7% GST and other charges.

* my choice