*Nutrition and a Cancer Diagnosis If you have been diagnosed with cancer, good nutrition is essential to your treatment, and can help you maintain a healthy weight and keep up your energy and strength. Your nutrition needs during treatment are unique to your type of cancer, what the treatment entails and your personal preferences. A team of health care professionals are needed when dealing with a cancer diagnosis and a key part of the team should always be a registered dietitian nutritionist. A registered dietitian nutritionist will: Help you find the best food choices and ways to eat based on how you feel and what you like. For example, small, frequent snacks may be easier to tolerate than large, daily meals. Food choices should be easy to chew, swallow, digest and absorb, even if high in fat. Help determine if supplements and nutrient-rich beverages and foods should be prescribed to help you get the nutrition you need. Help answer your questions about foods, supplements, nutrients and diet. There are endless amounts of resources concerning diet and cancer, and a registered dietitian nutritionist can help you sort the facts from fiction and determine a plan that is most beneficial to you.*
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:30:59 +0000
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