Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten before a given treatment session. Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues, researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect; it involved:
A) flashing different pictures of a patient's favourite food on an overhead monitor while the patient underwent treatment.
B) giving a patient unusual foods, such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy, at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment.
C) administering food to a patient in the middle of the treatment cycle.
D) telling a patient to eat samples of favourite foods before entering therapy, thereby ensuring that the patient remembered what the favourite foods were, even after treatment.
B) giving a patient unusual foods, such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy, at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment.
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