Do We Need a Nutrition Forum?

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From the National Institute of Health:

Omega-3 Supplements: An Introduction
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/omega3/introduction.htm

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Another resource from National Institute of Health on Nutrition and Breast Cancer:

Nutrition — giving your body the nutrients it needs — is important for everyone. When combined with exercising and maintaining a healthy weight, eating well is an excellent way to help your body stay strong and healthy.

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. In this section, you can read about healthy eating and what and how to eat during and after treatment.

If you are at high risk for breast cancer, eating well also is important for you. On the Nutrition and Breast Cancer Risk Reduction pages in the Lower Your Risk section, you can read about how healthy eating may help reduce your risk of a first time breast cancer.

What Does Healthy Eating Mean?
Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health. Find out how to balance your diet and manage your portion sizes.
Healthy Eating During Treatment
If you're recovering from surgery, or receiving chemotherapy, radiation, or other breast cancer treatment, your focus is on getting rid of the cancer. Eating well will help you stay strong for this fight by giving your body the nutrients it needs. Read about how you can eat to manage your weight, reduce fatigue, build your energy, and get enough fluids.
Healthy Eating After Treatment
Healthy eating and physical activity after treatment are important as you recover from treatment and begin your life beyond breast cancer. Learn about eating to manage your weight and how to create a healthy eating plan that includes exercise.
Dietary Supplements
Many women with breast cancer take dietary supplements such as vitamins, minerals, and herbs hoping it helps them to stay strong. Learn about suggestions for using supplements.
Nutrition Resources
In this section, you can browse a comprehensive list of links to nutrition web sites offering information on dietary guidelines, dietary supplements, research, nutrition labels, food safety, and more.
The medical experts for Nutrition are:
Cyndi Thomson, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments in medicine and public health. She is a registered dietitian with more 15 years of experience in clinical nutrition. Dr. Thomson is also principal investigator at the University of Arizona College of Public Health on several diet-cancer grants.
Diana Grant Dyer, M.S., R.D., a registered dietitian with 20 years of experience, specializing in nutritional care for critically ill patients. She is the author of A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information & Inspiration for Recovery & Healing from a 3-time Cancer Survivor (Swan Press, 2002) and is especially interested in how nutrition can influence cancer risk reduction and recovery.
Both Cyndi Thomson and Diana Grant Dyer are members of the Breastcancer.org Professional Advisory Board, which includes more than 60 medical experts in breast cancer-related fields.

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From Breastcancer.org:

Supplements to help regulate pH balance?Last modified on November 18, 2008Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers — Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain practitioners that believe that by altering the pH of your body, you can help…

July 2000: Food for Cancer RecoveryLast modified on November 18, 2008things. I did an extensive review of the literature on aspartame, and could see no harm in using it when it's part of a balanced and varied diet. If you are using it to lose weight, it has not been shown to make a difference. When you are baking, you can use fruit juices in place of sugar, like apple juice or prune extract, instead of a sugar…

July 2007: Vitamins and Herbal SupplementsLast modified on November 18, 2008on breast cancers does not depend on the gender of the patient. Back to top Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers — Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain…

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Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers —Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain practitioners that believe that by altering the pH of your body, you can help prevent certain disease processes from occurring. But to my knowledge, there are no clinical trials to support changing the pH of your body in order to specifically treat a cancer.

Gary Deng, M.D., Ph.D.: I believe the theory that acidity in the body causes cancer is a faulty one. For example, the most acidic organ in our body is the stomach, which is soaked in acid almost all the time. But stomach cancer is very rare. If acidity causes cancer, we would have seen many more stomach cancer cases. Therefore, I do not think cancer is caused by acidity. Cancer is caused by changes in the DNA of the cells and also the environment around the cells, not simply by acidity.