Nutritional Counseling

Nutrition plays a vital role in your tolerance of and recovery from cancer treatment. Optimizing your nutritional well-being can aid you through the cancer treatment experience and recovery process. Each step through the treatment and recovery process brings different challenges and nutritional demands. Knowing these demands and how to meet them can improve your overall healing and make treatments less difficult.

The Foundation for Integrative Oncology contracts with various 3rd party nutritionists and Registerd Dieticians to asses an individual's needs and set goals to facilitate well-beiing during treatment and recovery.

The goal of nutritional counseling is to help patients by:
• identifying possible nutrient deficiencies
• figuring out what to eat when side effects make eating difficult
• explaining the importance of adequate nutrients and how good nutrition will help the patients cope with the treatment side effects, preserve healthy tissue functions in the body, repair tissue damage caused by disease and / or treatment, strengthen the immune system, and maintain body weight.
• Strengthening the body to better withstand the negative effects that cancer and its treatment can cause.