Cancer_And_Diet

Cancer And Diet Staying Healthy With Cancer I chose to research about how ones diet can affect their body when going through treatment for any type of cancer. I felt the need to research this more because I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with Hotchkins disease, and has been rapidly loosing weight since her first chemotherapy treatment. Loosing weight while you have cancer or while you are going through treatment for your cancer can be your worst enemy, it can even be deadly (AICR). This statement is why one must do their best to keep eating even though they may feel they have no appetite, they must enable their body to help fight off the cancer and provide the energy to do so. Your diet is an important part of your treatment for cancer. Eating the right kinds of foods before, during, and after your treatment can help you feel better and stay stronger. “Food contributes much of the quality of our lives and is more that just a physical need” (Cancerbackup.com). If one really thinks about it, we can see that a significant part of our life revolves around food, and the social capacity that it enables one to cancer, one, energy, body, diet, treatment, feel, weight, food, eating, carbohydrates, provide, make, foods, even, though, stay, social, protein, patient, ones, need, must, loosing, loose, life, however, healthy, enables, enable, eat, work, while, through, support