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Contents and links:  Test your nutritional needs |  What to eat more of | What to eat less of | Dietary advice for specific symptoms| Diet and breast cancer | Prostate cancer | Issues with supplements | Benefits of organic food | Diet on chemotherapy | Radiotherapy | Hormones | For healthy bones | Other dietary issues | Lifestyle & cancer guide |

Diet and cancer are linked in many ways. Diet is one of the major lifestyle factors which  has an impact on our health, the risk of cancer development, how we cope during therapies and recover afterwards. Research evidence is now showing that a healthy diet after cancer can also reduce the risks of relapse improve overall well-being and cure. This section separates the individual components of food and offers practical advise under  the headings what to eat  more of,    what to eat do less of. 

For practical reasons, this section addresses people who do not have any, or few restrictions on their  diet, after their diagnosis of cancer. Likewise it doesn’t address any pre-existing long standing dietary requirements.  In general, therefore, it is probably not appropriate for patients with advanced cancer or those who’s tumours or treatments have affected their ability to eat or digest food. In these situation,  patients should seek formal advice from qualified dieticians preferably those attached to a mainstream cancer unit. As well as addressing healthy and unhealthy foods in general, various topics are available addressing. 

Dietary advice for specific conditions or diseases:

• Help reduce weight gain, 
• How to gain weight 
• Eating with nausea & poor appetite,
• Foods and advice to help diarrhoea, 
• Foods and advice to help constipation,
• Eating when breathless
• Eating when food tastes different 
• Eating with a dry mouth. 
• Diet and indigestion
• Dietary tips living with a stoma 
• Coping with hot flushes
• Dietary advice whilst taking procarbazine 

How to eat a healthy anti-cancer diet: This section gives a guide to how to achieve a healthier anti cancer diet to help reduce the risks of cancer developing in the first place but also to likewise prevent it relapsing after initial successful therapies. There is also some evidence that for some slowing prostate cancers, a healthy diet combined with other lifestyle factors can slow its rate of progression. In  reality, real food cannot be split into conveniently selected anti-cancer packages so each meal will contain a variety of healthy factors and unhealthy substances. Likewise, the foods considered to be anti-cancer at one stage may  benefit individuals at another stage of the cancer journey. Foods in moderation may be very helpful but in excess harmful. For ease of explanation, this section discusses the pros and cons of separate components of food but reading the evidence and guidance for each section below reveals the depth of information which will help you make truly informed:

• The benefits of organic foods  
• Cholesterol and cancer
• Diet and natural aspirin
• Diet and diabetes
• HRT loaf
• Concerns with dietary supplements. 
• Healthy recipes
• Diet news issues

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