Nutrition

Food is important to healing as well as for preventing cancer (as well as other major causes of death and disability such as strokes and heart attacks). Food contains carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals in varying amounts. The most significant of these for healing are proteins, complex substances that repair body tissue and maintain healthy immune responses.  

Nutrition recommendations differ before, during and after cancer treatment. Good nutrition is particularly important during treatment.

Free one-on-one nutrition advice is available. For instance:

• Ask the Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer  is a mobile phone app developed by Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. It allows you to ask questions fo nutrition experts and search for recipes that can help you manage dietary restrictions or syptoms, including mouth sores and nbausea.  It can even generate a grocery list. For more information, clisk here.   
• American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)has a nutrition hotline. You can submit a question either by phone or e mail. You will receive a response generally within three business days. For information, click here .

To learn more about nutrition and cancer before, during and after treatment, see:

• Eating Hints For Cancer Patients: Before, During and After Treatment from The National Cancer Institute. The booklet is available for free at: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/eatinghints/page1.
• Heal Well, A Cancer Nutrition Guide American Institute for Cancer Research, Savor Health and Armstrong Foundation,https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bIZbjK36BtNEV5YXp1NG1nZ2c/view
• Nutrition For The Person With Cancer During Treatment from the American Cancer Society:  www.cancer.org/Treatment/SurvivorshipDuringandAfterTreatment/NutritionforPeoplewithCancer/NutritionforthePersonwithCancer/index
• Dietary Supplements: How To Know What Is Safe, from the American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/DietarySupplements/index
• The following books from the American Cancer Society:
  • American Cancer Society Complete Guide To Nutrition For Cancer Survivors
  • What To Eat During Cancer Treatment. 
  • American Cancer Society books are available from the Society's bookstore at:  www.cancer.org/aboutus/booksandjournals/app/bookstore.aspx
• The Cancer Survival Cookbook by Donna Weihofen and Christina Marino, John Wiley & Sons
• What To Eat If you Have Cancer: Healing Foods That Boost Your Immune System by Maureen Keane, M.S. and Daniella Chace, M.S. available through bookstores, including used copies at such online stores as www.bn.com
• Recipes from:
  •  AICR (American Institute for Cancer Research). In the search box, type "Recipes"
  • Ogden Gaffney, a cancer survivor: CookForYourLife.org

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