Christina Lavner, RDN, Nutrition Services, presented Healthy Eating for Cancer Survivorship, as the second session of our Now What? A Cancer Survivorship Speaker Series for patients wanting to learn more about nutrition that will benefit them during and after treatment. Be sure to check out upcoming presenters in this series and pass the word on to any patients you think would be interested in the information. The next presentation in this series is November 16, Coping with Treatment Side Effects, presented by Constance Gore, RN-APN

1. Healthy Eating for
Cancer Survivorship
Christina Lavner, RDN
October 19, 2020

2. Cancer Survivorship - Cancer
Prevention
Key Topics:
 Food Anxiety
 Gut Health
 Fiber
 Exercise
 Inflammation
 American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
Recommendations

3. Food Anxiety
What is it?
The anxiety of what to eat after you're
diagnosed!
90% Of most information online is based on
someone's opinion or something someone
made up to sell a product.
Follow evidence-based nutrition!
Stay off Dr. Google!!
Brain gut pathway – it's real!

4. Gut Health
Important if you are a survivor or
not!
Probiotic
Prebiotics
Gut bacteria in obese patients is not equal
Eat the rainbow of colors!

5. Fiber is your friend!!
Focus on FIBER! :
 Greatest benefit seen with 25-30gm of fiber per day
 Reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Colon Cancer & Heart Disease by
24%
 Avoid adult weight gain
 Hydration is important
Fiber & Fluid goes hand-in-hand!
 Goal is to consume half your body weight in water
Example: If you weight 200# you need to drink 100 oz of water daily.

6. Exercise Is Medicine
Building lean muscle is key to avoiding adult weight gain.
After age 35 we start losing muscle at the rate of 1 # per year
The way we up take fat remains constant throughout our
lifespan
The way we release fat gets cut in half after menopause.
**We overestimate what we can do in a month but
underestimate what we can achieve in a year!
**You don't have to exercise, you can exercise! It's a gift we
can give ourselves, our bodies are meant to move!
Your body will thank you!

7. Inflammation
What we know:
1. Animal-based products leads to
inflammation
2. Chronic inflammation leads to disease
development
Anti-inflammatory diet => plant-based diet with
limited to no red meat

8. AICR Recommendations:
10 Recommendations for cancer prevention
1. Be a healthy weight
2. Be physically active
3. Eat a diet rich in whole grains, vegetables, fruits & beans
4. Limit consumption of processed foods
5. Limit consumption of red & processed meats
6. Limit consumption of sugar sweetened drinks
7. Limit alcohol consumption
8. Do not use supplements for cancer preventions
9. Breast feed your baby if you can
10. If you have been diagnosed, follow above
recommendations.