Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating After Treatment Ends

Most eating-related side effects of cancer treatments go away after the treatment ends. Sometimes side effects such as poor appetite, dry mouth, change in taste or smell, trouble swallowing, or significant weight loss may last for some time. If this happens to you, talk to your health care team and work out a plan to address the problem.

Maximum Immunity: 7 Essential Nutrients

With wealth pretty much out the door for now, we would all do well to keep an extra watchful eye on our health. I know I’m going to keep this list of seven essential nutrients for immunity in my mind when I shop for my groceries. The list comes from 4 Weeks to Maximum Immunity: Disease-Proof Your Body, by the editors of Prevention Magazine.

5 Ways to Start a "Diet"

I just wrote the word "diet" in the title so you'd know what I was talking about, but honestly, that should be a swear word. How about, "5 easy ways to get food to serve you and your goals?" Or what about, "The joy of food", or "The great things food can do for your body and your goals."

Exotic Vegetables

Calabaza Squash

The Glory of Grains!

The Glory of Grains

We find ourselves now entering that transition time – it’s still winter in most parts of the U.S., but every now and then we get those teaser days that are just a little warmer and sunnier. You may have even noticed a few early-bird plants poking their heads above ground!

Using the Food Guide Pyramid to Reduce Cancer Risk

One source for sound nutrition advice on cancer prevention and diet is the American Dietetic Association (ADA). As a reference for meal planning, the ADA recommends the Food Guide Pyramid and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Both of these support the "total diet approach" to eating. This means long-term eating habits are more important than what you eat at a single meal. In their words, "there are no good or bad foods, only good or bad diets or eating styles."

Nutrition for Cancer Prevention

What we eat throughout our life, how active we are, as well as our genes, all affect our overall health and risk of degenerative diseases. Cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and other non-communicable diseases all occur more frequently as we age. Many of these conditions can be improved with a physically active lifestyle and by eating healthily.

Two positive improvements you can make right now:

Drugs from Vegetables May Target Melanoma Tumors

THURSDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- A drug based on compounds extracted from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could offer a potent and safe treatment against melanoma, Penn State College of Medicine researchers say.

In mice, a combination of these vegetable compounds (called isothiocyanates) and selenium slowed production and blocked the signaling network of a protein called Akt3 -- which plays a role in melanoma development, -- and reduced tumor growth by 60 percent.

Foods That Fight Cancer: Whole Grains

The term “whole grain” means that all three parts of the grain kernel (germ, bran and endosperm) are included. Refined grains usually have the bran and germ removed, leaving only the starchy endosperm. Brown rice is a whole grain, white rice is not. Other whole-grain foods include wheat breads, rolls, pasta and cereals; whole grain oat cereals such as oatmeal, popcorn, wild rice, tortilla and tortilla chips, corn, kasha (roasted buckwheat) and tabouleh (bulghur wheat).

Study Urges More Oversight of Dietary Items

More than half of all American adults, or at least 114 million people, use dietary supplements like vitamin pills, diet pills, herbs and energy drinks. But the Food and Drug Administration does not have enough authority to ensure that the products are safe, and it should seek more oversight power, according to a government audit released Tuesday.

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