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5 ways to cope with cravings. Giving in to cravings can lead to unwanted weight gain – and that can affect your cancer risk. Learn how to avoid them. BY Kellie Bramlet Blackburn.
- Kellie Bramlet Blackburn
This leaflet gives you advice on how to deal with a craving, and tools to manage it. What is the difference between hunger and a craving? While hunger can be satisfied by eating any food, a craving will feel it can only met if the food we are craving is eaten.
Food craving has been associated with different types of cancer in adults and young patients, as well as with orthorexia; conversely, compulsive eating has only been explored in patients with prolactinoma treated with dopamine agonists.
In the short term, eating well can: give you energy. help you feel better. keep your body strong. help you cope with side effects. Over the long term, eating well can: help you heal and recover after treatment. lower your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis (weakening of the bones) lower your risk of some types of cancer
May 18, 2018 · Bottom line: There is little scientific evidence proving that cravings happen because of a lack of certain nutrients in the body; however, patients – especially those fighting pancreatic cancer – may have hunger cues due to malabsorption.
They work with your doctor to decide together on the best way to manage your diet problems. There are ways to deal with diet problems such as taste changes, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, constipation and sickness (nausea). Read more about the types of diet problems with cancer.
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Eating Well When You Have Cancer. their personal stories with us. To protect their privacy, and with their permiss. We also thank those who offered recipes and tips to help others through their journey. This material was reviewed in 2018.
