Nutrition & Exercise Column
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Nutritional Support for Cancer Patients
Body composition and nutrition can positively influence survival duration and quality of life for clinically diagnosed cancer
patients (2-4,13). Lifestyle modifications that optimize nutritional quality and maintain body weight can lessen many of the deleterious
side effects experienced during treatment and recovery. Efforts to increase survivability in diagnosed patients require a thorough
understanding of the risk factors associated with both prevention and promotion of this disease
(5,8,12).
The purpose of the following paper is to examine the detriments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy on health status, and
2) to assess the role of nutrition in mitigating the debilitating symptoms of advanced-staged cancers.
Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy can alter a... (more)
Choosing Between Aerobic and Resistance Exercise for Type 2 Diabetes
Over the past several decades, type 2 diabetes has become a chronic disease of epidemic proportion. In fact, the American Diabetes Association reports that 19 million people have been diagnosed as diabetic, with over four times as many people estimated to be pre-diabetic (having a fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 125mg/dL). The impact of the elevated blood glucose level and the disease—which includes a host of complications not limited to stroke, blindness, and kidney disease—has prompted researchers to conduct studies centered around how to most effectively curb the development of type 2 diabetes. Exercise is a method consistently shown to be successful in the treatment and prevention of diabetes. Indeed, one topic of critical interest and importance to... (more)