Diet choices during cancer treatment
People experience many different emotions and physical reactions before, during, and after cancer treatments. Their desire for information varies greatly, too. Some may want to read everything they can get their hands on and talk to everyone they can.
Nutrition and the Cancer Survivor, a concise, accessible publication by the American Institute for Cancer Research, dishes out a few simple rules for health from the AICR and provides some guidelines for eating to prevent a recurrence of cancer, if not merely to eat healthily.
Greater intake of solid fruits, such as apples and pears, has been linked to healthier lung function.
Click here for additional eating hints for cancer patients, before, during and after treatement.
Cancer Nutrition Tips (5/19/2009)
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