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Empowering Your Body
after a Cancer Diagnosis
Dr. Rob Rutledge, Oncologist
Associate Professor of Medicine
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Empowering Your Body:
Main Points
● You can make a tremendous difference
in your health and happiness
● Start with the attitude of loving your
body
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What is Complete Cancer Care?
(Integrative Medicine)
● Understanding what’s happening
● Getting the best from the medical system
● Empowering body with healthy lifestyle
– Exercise, diet, maintaining reasonable
weight, sleep, relaxation techniques
● Healing skills – training your mind
● Nurturing a spiritual life / perspective
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What Causes Cancer?
● Cancer occurs when the normal
cells in your body begin to grow in
an uncontrolled way
● It requires dozens of mistakes in
the cell before a cell becomes
cancerous
● The mistakes are caused by
-Genetics (rare)
-Mutations during replication (old age)
-Damaging substances (carcinogens)
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Normal Cells Transform To
Cancer Cells Over Decades
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Carcinogens and inflammation
● Smoking, alcohol, sunlight
● Viruses
● Unhealthy diet
-Smoked meats, nitrates,
inflammatory foods
● Carrying too much weight
● Spikes in blood sugar
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Don’t Turn Slow-Growing Cancer
Cells into Fast Growing Cells
● It’s damage to the normal cells that cause
cancer in the first place
● It’s damage to slow growing cells that
cause them to become fast growing cells
● What’s good for preventing your type of
cancer is good after a diagnosis
● Stop doing what’s known to increase risk
of your type of cancer
● CHANGE THE SOUP!
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Why Empower Your
Body?
● A healthy soup decreases further mutations
to cancer cells
● Decrease risk of developing a new and
different cancer
● You can get through treatments more easily
-Decrease
complications / side effects
● Recover faster – and function better!
● You will be happier!!
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Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!
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Nutrition
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Nutrition – Main Points
● Eating is meant to be pleasurable
● Maintain a balanced diet
– Micronutrients from multiple food groups
at each meal
● Choose vegetables and healthy fats
● Increase fiber greater than 30g / day
● Find a happy balance for you
– What will work in the long term?
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Does a Poor Diet Cause
Cancer?
● Multiple factors contribute to
developing cancer cells
● Lab tests - cancer cells grow faster on
fatty diets
● People with healthy diets also get
cancer
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The Healthy Eating Plan
● Eat fresh unrefined natural food
- Whole grains
● Variety from each food group each day
● Choose lower-fat foods more often
-Avoid diet high in animal fat
● Grains (5 servings) - wheat, oats, rye, rice,
barley, millet, tapioca and buckwheat
● Vegetables/Fruit (5-10 servings)
● Avoid refined sugars
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Plant Foods
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● Eat more grains, vegetables, fruit and beans
● Eat relatively unprocessed cereals (grains)
and/or pulses (legumes) at every meal
● Limit refined starchy foods
● Eat at least five portions/servings (at least
400 g or 14 oz) of a variety of non-starchy
vegetables and fruits every day
● Different colours including red, green, yellow,
white, purple, and orange, including tomatobased products and allium vegetables, such as
garlic
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Meat and Protein
● Meat/Alternatives (2-3 servings)
● Choose leaner meats, poultry, and fish
and dried peas, beans and lentils
● Avoiding processed meats
● Cutting back on red meats
– consume less than 500 g (18 oz) of red meat
a week
– Beef, pork, lamb, and goat
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Preservation,
Processing, Preparation
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● Limit consumption of salty foods and
foods processed with salt (sodium)
● Avoid mouldy cereals (grains) or pulses
(legumes)
● Limit consumption of processed foods with
added salt to ensure an intake of less than
6g (2.4g sodium) a day
● Methods of preservation that do not or
need not use salt include refrigeration,
freezing, drying, bottling, canning, and
fermentation
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The Fat Issue
● Polyunsaturated fats are good
– vegetable oils (other than coconut and palm)
– seeds and nuts
– fatty fishes such as salmon and trout
● Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids are polyunsaturates that our body cannot make
● Omega 3 found in flaxseed, canola and
soybeans, fatty fish and wheatgerm
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How To Choose Healthy Fat
● Read the labels
● Choose less saturated fats (<5% of
calories) and more monounsaturated
fats, ie: vegetable oils (canola,
peanut, olive oils), nuts like almonds,
hazelnuts and macadamia nuts
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The Vegetarian Alternative
● Lower in fat and higher in fiber
● With milk products – vegetarians still
need to watch iron intake
● If vegan (no animal products) watch your intake of protein, calcium,
zinc and vitamin B12
● Takes time and planning
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Alcoholic Drinks
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● For cancer prevention, it’s best
not to drink alcohol
• Daily limit: Women one drink, men two drinks
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Antioxidants
● Oxidants - fat, smoking, lack of exercise
... damage the cell’s control center
● Anti-oxidants prevent damage
● Phytochemicals (from plants)
– apples and onions and red wine
● Isoflavones ie. soy and genestein
● Nutrients - vitamin A, C, E, beta carotene,
selenium
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Suggested Vitamins
● Vitamin D 800 IU / day
● Calcium 1600 mg/ day
● For cancer prevention, don’t rely
on supplements
● This may not always be feasible. In
some situations of illness or
dietary inadequacy, supplements
may be valuable
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www.inspirehealth.ca/resources/recipes/
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Food To Eat On A
Daily Basis
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Berries
Brazil nuts
Citrus
Cruciferous
Vegetables
● Fish
● Flax
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Legumes
Tea
Tomatoes
Yogurt
Vegetables – dark,
orange, red, green
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Nutrition Summary
●Effective way to improve our health
●Do your research / see an expert
●Enjoy - let food be a source of joy
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Maintaining A
Reasonable
Weight
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Calculate Your Body Mass Index
BMI > 20
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Height
60 inches
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Weight in Pounds
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Body Fatness
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● Research shows that weight gain, overweight
and obesity increases the risk of 11 cancers
● Maintaining a healthy weight - through a
balanced diet and regular physical activity helps reduce the risk of developing cancer
● Aim for BMI between 21-23
● Avoid weight gain and increases in waist
circumference throughout adulthood
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Foods and Drinks That
Promote Weight Gain
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● Limit consumption of energy-dense
foods (foods high in fats and/or
added sugars and/or low in fibre)
and avoid sugary drinks
● Consume fast food sparingly, if at all
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Sleep
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Relaxation
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Questions
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Diet and Nutrition
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Eat a predominantly plant-based diet
Concentrate on fruits and vegetables
Eat whole grain rice, breads, cereals
Limit consumption of red meat
Lighten up on fat, sugar, salt and
alcohol
(1 drink/day for women; 2 drinks/day for men)
● Select low fat milk products
● Eat small portions
● Maintain healthy body weight
Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet
alone!
AICR (2007). Food, nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of
cancer: Global perspectives. www.dietandcancerreport.org
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Diet and Nutrition
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Eat a predominantly plant-based diet
Concentrate on fruits and vegetables
Eat whole grain rice, breads, cereals
Limit consumption of red meat
Lighten up on fat, sugar, salt and alcohol
– 1 drink/day for women; 2 drinks/day for men
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Select low fat milk products
Eat small portions
Maintain healthy body weight
Aim to meet nutritional needs through diet
alone
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● Olive oil and canola are best as higher
monounsaturates
● Omega 3 – two to three servings per
week.
● Ca++ /vit D for everyone
● Quack watch then medline
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