Managing Eating Problems
Chemotherapy and a good diet. Sounds like a difficult combination doesn't it? Patients frequently report altered reaction to tastes, smells and textures during treatment. During chemotherapy, foods that were once family favorites can be unappealing and there are times when you just don't feel like eating.
We want to help and your family members with suggestions for maintaining good nutrition and a healthy diet during chemotherapy. Share this information with family and friends who often ask, "What can I do to help?" Have a friend cook for you and deliver meals. Invite a relative to do your shopping. You, your friends and family can all benefit from taking control of nutrition.
Cancer diet: What is a good diet?
Learn what foods constitute a healthy diet, as well as the American Cancer Society's nutrition guidelines. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
What might affect nutrition during chemotherapy, and how should you adjust your diet?
During chemotherapy, maintaining adequate nutrition is key to minimizing deficiency and optimizing your immune system, strength and treatment tolerance. This section gives an overview as to how various cancer treatments may affect patients nutritionally. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
Tips for Managing Eating Problems and Your Diet after Chemo Treatments
Learn to manage such chemotherapy symptoms as loss of appetite, mouth sores, difficulty swallowing, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, dry mouth and taste changes as related to eating. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
Chemotherapy Diet Resources: Diets that you may follow during chemotherapy treatments
Read about special diets that you may be asked to follow during your chemotherapy treatment. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
How to increase calories in your diet: This page offers many ways to increase the calories you consume during meals.
Please pass the butter. Learn how adding tasty condiments and spreads to foods can help you increase your caloric intake - a good thing during cancer treatment. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
High protein diets for chemo patients - how to add protein to your diet
Because protein is an important component of good nutrition, this section gives tips on increasing foods like cheese, ice cream, milk, eggs, peanut butter and others that can help you get the protein your diet needs during chemotherapy. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
Vitamins and Cancer: What about taking diet supplements and vitamins
Many patients wonder if their diet during chemotherapy should include vitamins, supplements and or herbs. Keeping in mind it always important to ask you physician before making any dietary change, this section defines common terms such as antioxidants, flavonoids, herbs, vitamins and more. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
Anti-cancer diets you may have heard about such as the Macrobiotic diet for cancer
Many people ask, "is there an approved special 'anti-cancer diet'?" While the authors of chemocare.com DO NOT endorse any such diet, the question is so frequently asked that information about popular "anti-cancer" diets is contained here. Read about macrobiotics, Gerson therapy, Livingston Wheeler Regimen as well as their risks. Lea Más!!!!!!!!!!!
