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The Role Of Nutrition In Cancer Treatment

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What role proper nutrition plays in cancer treatment? Cancer patients find it even more important to eat right during treatment. Their dietary intake can literally become a matter of life and death. Sugary, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are the most common treatments designed to stop the spread of cancer by killing and /or or removing cancerous cells. Unfortunately, in the process of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, many of the body’s healthy cells are also damaged or destroyed. During these treatments the body is working unusually hard: fighting the cancer cells, and attending to the damage top healthy cells caused by the therapy by repairing and replacing already-damaged cells. The strain of these combined tasks is considerable, and the body requires a proportionally higher amount of nutrients just to maintain standard body functions. The side effects of the treatment such as loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, blistered mouth or throat tissu

Good Nutrition Can Also Improve Fertility in Men

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For men, some nutrients have been shown to affect fertility. When trying to conceive, women are not the only ones who should be paying attention to what they're eating. What men eat can affect their fertility, too. Good nutrition can generate valuable dividends, and there is no better time than the present to start. The better a man's nutritional status, the healthier his sperm are and the more easily a woman will conceive. His diet should be very similar to a woman's pre-pregnancy eating plan. However, the calorie intake will be altered based on his age, sex, and body structure and activity level. By using the recommendations below, he will be providing his body with adequate nutrition and also supplying the key nutrients such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, calcium and Vitamin D. These nutrients have been identified as having specific roles in the production of sperm. (Green world Multivitamins is recommended here ) A man's daily diet should include bread, grains and p