Your Friend Hannah Is About to Begin Chemotherapy Treatments for Cancer.She

question 35

Multiple Choice

Your friend Hannah is about to begin chemotherapy treatments for cancer.She read in an information packet that chemotherapy patients often develop aversions to their favourite foods due to illness associated with the treatments.Which of the following would you recommend to Hannah to help her avoid these aversions?

• A)Prior to her chemotherapy,Hannah should eat an unfamiliar scapegoat food so that any aversions she develops will be associated with the scapegoat and not her favourite foods.
• B)Hannah should continue to eat her favourite foods despite taste aversions as those will eventually go away and her favourite foods will make her feel better.
• C)Taste aversions only occur to unfamiliar foods so she should eat familiar foods prior to chemotherapy.
• D)Taste aversions require repeated pairings to develop and as long as she eats something different prior to each chemotherapy treatment,she shouldn't develop any taste aversions.

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