From tips for cooking through chemotherapy to busting healthy food myths to easy, pantry-friendly meal ideas — our team of experts covers it here.
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How to Lower Your Risk for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal or colon cancer accounts for one-third of all cancer-related deaths in the United States, affecting men and women of all racial and ethnic groups, especially in people...
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Maintaining a Healthy Weight for Cancer Prevention
Many studies show convincing evidence that there is a strong link between excess body fat and cancer risk. The mechanism of how excess body fat increases cancer is...
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How to Eat an Anti-Inflammatory, Immune-Boosting Diet
It’s no mystery that there are many foods with proven benefits for your immune system. When you consume these foods, it helps support our body’s acute inflammatory response (the...
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What Are Antioxidants?
Terms like antioxidants and free radicals tend to be thrown around a lot, especially in the cancer area, where these compounds are supposed to help prevent or fight...
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The Facts about Fiber
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate and should be one of your favorite parts of a cancer-protective diet. There are two types, soluble fiber and insoluble fiber, and...
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Pairing Your Foods To Get More Nutrition
Did you know that pairing different foods together can help increase the amount of nutrition you get from foods? Here are simple ways of getting more of these...
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What Can I Eat on a Bland Diet?
My doctor told me to go on a bland diet after surgery. What can I actually eat?
When prescribed a bland diet, people often feel doomed to culinary purgatory. ...
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Cooking Through Chemotherapy
When I was going through cancer treatment, I experienced bone wrenching fatigue. A pal of mine who knows I love to cook gave me a cookbook featuring recipes...
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Top 3 Questions I’m Asked As An Oncology RD
Alexandra Rothwell is a registered dietitian, with a specialization in oncology nutrition. Currently in private practice in the Bay Area, while she was in New York Alexandra worked...
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Managing Weight Loss During Cancer Treatment
According to the...
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Food Sources of Probiotics
Probiotics are healthy bacteria found in foods that help increase the diversity in bacteria species within the gut. Probiotic bacteria can be found in fermented foods.
Foods containing probiotics...
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Ask Esther: Lowering Cholesterol
Lifestyle changes are a terrific way to address high cholesterol. As a registered dietitian-nutritionist, I’ll walk you through some things you can do. But keep in mind that...
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