S2Ep5 Gut Reactions: The Importance of a Dietitian, pt 2

This episode is the 2nd of a 2 parter!

Listen to S2Ep4 for the 1st part of this 2 part podcast.

Lora Silver, MS, RDN, CSO, CDN, CNSC an oncology dietitian from Yale Smilow Cancer Center joined me in a conversation about why it's important to have a dietitian on your care team. Food is complicated in all cancers, but particularly CRC. And there is a lot of misinformation out there about it.

Join me in learning how dietitians (and care partners!) can help cancer patients eat better, and feed that gut microbiome too.

In this episode, we talk more specifically about foods to eat in Cancerland, including talking about a session out of the ASCO conference about anti-inflammatory foods and colorectal cancer. And how as care partners, we can help our loved ones in a very meaningful way, through food and nutrition.

Show Notes:

• CancerCare provides many free nutrition education resources https://www.cancercare.org/tagged/nutrition
• Yale’s Teaching Kitchen https://www.ynhhs.org/patient-care/teaching-kitchen
• Recipes from The Cancer Fighting Kitchen https://www.rebeccakatz.com/recipe-box/tag/The+Cancer-Fighting+Kitchen
• MSK Recipes for People with Cancer https://www.mskcc.org/experience/patient-support/nutrition-cancer/recipes#sort=relevancy
• ASCO Inflammatory Diet Abstract https://www.asco.org/about-asco/press-center/news-releases/pro-inflammatory-diets-associated-worse-outcomes-patients-stage-III-colon-cancer
  
  

Other resources that Lora wanted to share:

• Livestrong and Maple Tree are good places to start for fitness and physical activity resources that you can access from home and/or in your community https://livestrong.org/resources/ and https://www.mapletreecanceralliance.org/virtual-training/

Editing to add - 

• CancerChoices.org: How to Use AI to Navigate Cancer Information: Tips and Considerations - CancerChoices
• Society for Integrative Oncology: https://integrativeonc.org/dont-believe-everything-you-read/

• (01:17) - Gut microbiome


• (02:42) - Fiber!


• (03:21) - How to get more fiber, even if you can't eat fiber


• (04:43) - Food source info


• (07:56) - Spoiler alert: Sugar does not feed cancer


• (09:43) - Inflammatory foods part 1


• (13:00) - ASCO session on inflammatory foods and CRC (and pizza?)


• (18:17) - Pro-inflammatory foods


• (19:58) - Teaching Kitchens and learning how to cook for cancer patients


• (22:19) - How care partners can help through food


• (24:12) - Sometimes you need a little help from your friends (or a carryout)