Together Fight Cancer

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05/29/2024

It’s never been more important to focus on cancer prevention
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05/23/2024

👉🏻 For knowledge

05/23/2024

Cancer is recognized worldwide to be a major health problem affecting millions of people each year. More than 1.9 million people in the U.S. alone were diagnosed with cancer in 2023. The good new is there are certain foods — so-called cancer-fighting foods — that can help combat cancer.

Cancer is a systemic disease with various causes, some of which include a poor diet, toxin exposure, nutrient deficiencies and to some extent genetics. One extremely important way to prevent and/or treat cancer is nutritionally, through eating a nutrient-dense diet full of cancer-fighting foods and avoiding things that are known to increase cancer risk.

But for many people navigating the modern-day food system often seems overwhelming. Ingredients found in ultra-processed foods are being blamed for everything health-related, from cancer and diabetes to reduced kidney function and bone loss. Only adding to the confusion, sometimes even the way we cook otherwise-healthy foods puts them in the cancer-causing foods category while not consuming enough cancer-fighting foods.

Unfortunately, until food manufacturers are forced to clean up the ingredients they use in their products, it’s up to us to avoid the worst kinds and to choose cancer-fighting foods. Today, the early combination of chemotherapy and nutrition therapy is able to save the lives of thousands of cancer patients.

This duel approach can help support the entire body and mind in the healing process, which sometimes be long and very difficult. Certainly when it comes to cancer prevention, more research is still needed. But for now, here are tips for how to transition to eating an anti-cancer diet full of cancer-fighting foods

05/21/2024

How You Can Help Your Friends and Family Members With Cancer
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We all know someone with cancer. It is more likely that we know several individuals battling this terrible disease. Yet, many people are unsure about how to provide support. What do cancer patients need? How much help is too much? Making the task even more difficult is that every patient tackles treatment differently. It is challenging to figure out the best way to be helpful.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) suggests the following ways that friends and caregivers can offer meaningful help to their loved ones with cancer:

1.Become a point person to coordinate volunteer efforts✅
2.Research treatment options, doctors, and support resources✅
3.Deliver nutrition-packed, easily digestible food and soups✅
4.Provide childcare✅
5.Run errands such as grocery shopping✅
6.Do chores such as housecleaning and laundry✅
7.Accompany them to treatments✅
8.Visit them, so they do not feel isolated✅
9.Pray with them and/or put them on a prayer list if this is appropriate✅
10.Send fun, thoughtful gifts and cards✅
Letting a cancer patient know that they are not alone is the best thing you can do. Providing companionship, sending surprise gifts, and helping with everyday tasks can make a tremendous difference in the day of a person undergoing cancer treatment. The impact you can have just by doing these small things might surprise you.