WHY NUTRITIONAL THERAPY MUST BE A PART OF
ANY CANCER TREATMENT
Whether you have been recently diagnosed with cancer, are undergoing treatment, or are in remission, you can optimize your treatment outcomes and overall health through specific dietary and lifestyle interventions.
Working with a nutrition expert is an essential part of cancer treatment, both during active treatment and after.
During cancer treatment, nutritional therapy is targeted at managing symptoms of the disease and treatments, preventing weight loss, and maintaining optimal nutrition status to support the body’s natural defense systems. Studies highlight the value of dietary interventions on functional treatment outcomes, including improved tolerance to treatment, reduced breaks between treatments, decreased weight loss, increased confidence around food choices, and quicker recovery after treatment.
Once treatment has concluded, specific dietary and lifestyle habits can be adopted that are targeted at enhancing recovery, restoring health, and preventing disease recurrence.
Not all cancers require the same dietary interventions, and nutrient requirements during cancer treatment may change. Thus, it is critical that an individual’s specific dietary requirements are assessed and addressed on an ongoing basis. The inclusion of specific dietary choices and the educated use of supplements assures individuals with cancer that their nutritional needs are being met and their body’s natural defense mechanisms are optimized.
Nutritional therapy will:
- Enable you to take control of your health with greater clarity and less confusion
- Educate you on how to eat to help suppress cancer growth
- Optimize nutritional status
- Enhance treatment outcomes
- Strengthen the body’s natural defense mechanisms
- Support maintenance of muscle mass, strength, and resilience during treatment
- Support energy levels
- Support mood and mental health
- Support digestion
- Mitigate side effects of treatment
- Enhance healing and recovery after treatment
- Help restore your health and reduce the risk of recurrence and secondary cancers
Dietary and lifestyle interventions can:
- Strengthen the body’s natural defenses to help prevent and suppress cancer while improving overall health
- Slow down cancer growth by including foods with tumour-fighting properties that are selectively toxic to cancer cells
- Enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatments
- Reduce your risk of cancer recurrence and secondary cancers
