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Nutrition Matters Program and Support
 Welcome to Advanced Breast Care Specialists’ information on cancer
and nutritional support. We invite you to read and learn about the value of
nutrient dense food in your fight for recovery from breast cancer.
Let’s begin with the research on the connection between diet and
cancer. The National Cancer Institute estimates that at least 35% of
all cancers have a nutritional connection. Adding in lifestyle
factors such as smoking and exercise and the associated risk could
be as high as 85%.
According to MD Anderson Cancer Center, an individual
can reduce their risk of cancer by as much as 30 to 40% by making
healthier food choices. Dr.
Lisa Curcio encourages all of her patients and breast cancer
survivors to understand the vital role nutrition plays in your
overall health.
Dr. Curcio advises, if you're currently undergoing treatment for
breast cancer or have been treated for breast cancer in the past,
eating well is particularly important for you. One of the best
things you can do is to adopt healthy eating habits to overcome your
exhaustion and rebuild your body. Although there are few definitive
studies on the links between diet and breast cancer, we do know that
healthy eating strengthens muscles, reduces fatigue and anemia,
decreases depression and anxiety and helps promote emotional
balance.
Don’t know where to start? Individual
assessments and counseling are available
at Advanced Breast Care Specialist. Call today to schedule a
nutritional and dietary consultation. Consultations may be covered
by your insurance.
To download nutritional flyer, click here.
Important Nutrition
Information
According to the American Institute for Cancer Research, (AICR), an
important recommendation for
cancer prevention is to, “eat more of a variety of vegetables,
fruits, whole grains and legumes such as beans.” Specific
information from the WCRF/AICE Second Expert Report on this
recommendation is as follows:
“Basing our diets on plant foods (like vegetables, fruits, whole
grains and legumes such as beans), which contain fiber and other
nutrients, can reduce our risk of cancer.
For good health, AICR recommends that we base all of our meals on
plant foods. When preparing a meal, aim to fill at least two-thirds
of your plate with vegetables, fruits, whole grains and beans.
Research shows that vegetables and fruits probably protect against a
range of cancers, including mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus,
stomach, lung, pancreas and prostate. There are many reasons why
vegetables and fruits may protect against cancer. As well as
containing vitamins and minerals, which help keep the body healthy
and strengthen our immune system, they are also good sources of
substances like phytochemicals. These are biologically active
compounds, which can help to protect cells in the body from damage
that can lead to cancer.
Foods containing fiber are also linked to a reduced risk of cancer.
These foods include whole-grain bread and pasta, oats and vegetables
and fruits. Fiber is thought to have many benefits, including
helping to speed up ‘gut transit time’ - how long it takes food to
move through the digestive system.
Plant foods can also help us to maintain a healthy weight because
many of them are lower in energy density (calories).”
Source: American Institute for Cancer Research
Group Classes
Nutrition Matters
Classes may be covered by your insurance and insurance will be
billed. For those cash patients, please ask for the cost of class
you are interested in. Reservations required.
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Nutrition
Matters During Cancer Treatment
Learn specific nutritional interventions to minimize
side effects
and improve healing and well-being.
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Nutrition Intervention to Minimize Cancer Risk
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Weight Control During Cancer Treatment
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your weight and receive
nutrition counseling to
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Recommended References
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The American
Dietetic Association at
www.eatright.org.
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The
American Institute for Cancer research at
www.aicr.com has "Recipes from the AICR Test Kitchens"
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"Food for
Thought: Healing Foods to Savor" is a cookbook available from
The Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Moores UCSD Cancer
Center (Location of the WHELS Study let by Dr. John Pierce)
Learn More...Articles
of Interest
In 2004 an important study entitled, Does diet affect breast
cancer risk? by Michelle D Holmes and Walter C Willett (Channing
Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department
of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
documented specific dietary habits and the incidence of
breast cancer. The study's abstract was as follows:
"The role of specific dietary factors in breast cancer causation is
not completely resolved. Results from prospective studies do not
support the concept that fat intake in middle life has a major
relation to breast cancer risk. However, weight gain in middle life
contributes substantially to breast cancer risk. Alcohol is the best
established dietary risk factor, probably by increasing endogenous
estrogen levels."
For more information on this study visit:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=468678
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Relationship Between Potentially
Modifiable Lifestyle Factors and Risk of Second Primary
Contralateral Breast Cancer Among Women Diagnosed With Estrogen
Receptor–Positive Invasive Breast Cancer
(Read article and Dr. Lisa Curcio's commentary)
Christopher I. Li,* Janet R. Daling, Peggy L. Porter,
Mei-Tzu C. Tang, and Kathleen E. Malone
From the Divisions of Public Health Sciences and Human Biology, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Contact
Dr. Lisa
Curcio to discuss your
risk
for breast cancer .
Dr. Curcio
is a
breast cancer heredity risk specialist and she can
advise you on your
breast
cancer risk.
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