Patient Resources
“Staying hydrated makes treatment side effects less severe and lowers your chances of missing or delaying cancer treatments.”
– Debra Ruzensky,
Senior Clinical Dietitian at UT MD Anderson (Cancer treatment side effect: Dehydration, 2019)
“Reaching or maintaining a healthy weight is a great goal to have to improve your overall health which can have a positive effect on your prostate cancer journey”
– Dr. Stephen Freedland
Director of the Center for Integrated Research in Cancer and Lifestyle (Zero Prostate Cancer)
“Breast cancer is a disease that can be influenced by foods that effectively ‘starve’ the tumor by cutting off its blood supply.”
– Dr. William Li
Physician-Scientist (Can we eat to starve cancer?)
“When you give someone a blood pressure medicine, the medicine lowers their blood pressure but doesn’t necessarily affect cholesterol or blood sugar or anything else. But healthy food affects lots of different systems, all in a positive way.”
– Dr. Seth Berkowitz
Primary care doctor and the deputy scientific director of the American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food initiative.
The popular saying is that when you’re pregnant, you should ‘eat for two,’ but that doesn’t mean that you should eat twice your usual amount… Instead, you should aim to eat twice as healthy
ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Guideline