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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Want to Fight Cancer with Your Fork? There’s an App for That

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 …

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