Thursday, January 10, 2013
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute created the Ask the Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer app to help you find recipes for staying healthy, getting you through treatment, and living and eating healthy for the rest of your life.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has launched a free, easy-to-use iPhone® app that provides recipes and nutrition information that can be searched by cancer patients in accordance with their needs. The recipes are also helpful to anyone who wants to have a healthy diet. “We developed Ask the Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer to encourage and empower cancer patients, and others, to explore and enjoy healthy eating habits,” says Steven R. Singer, senior vice president for Communications at Dana-Farber. “Studies have long shown that good nutrition is tied to good health, and, for those with cancer, treatment side effects can make eating well a real challenge.” Ask The Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer contains over a hundred …
Friday, November 16, 2012
Dana-Farber expert offers tips to fight cancer with your fork this season.
Autumn offers a cornucopia of cancer fighting foods and many of them will end up on the dinner table this season. Stacy Kennedy, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, a senior nutritionist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, says many fruits and vegetables are at their nutritional peak in the fall so it’s a great time to incorporate them into a healthy diet. The key is to know what to look for. Kennedy shares the ABCs of fall foods along with some nutritious and easy to prepare recipes. 1.“A” is for Apple. There may be something to the old adage, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Studies suggest that eating at least one apple a day can help prevent throat, mouth, colon, lung and possibly breast cancer. Besides being crisp, sweet, and juicy, …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dana-Farber experts offer life saving information and ways to reduce risk
More than an estimated 160,000 people in the United States will die from lung cancer this year, making it the country’s leading cause of cancer death. According to the National Cancer Institute, it surpassed breast cancer as the number one killer in women back in 1987. It causes more deaths than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined, according to the American Lung Association. Bruce Johnson, MD, the director of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, sorts out the facts about lung cancer and offers simple ways to reduce risk. 1. Lung cancer targets more than just smokers. The greatest risk factor for lung cancer is smoking, but non-smokers can also development lung cancer. “Roughly 10 to 15 percent of …
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