Transforming Lives
Improved Wellbeing for Cancer Patients with Healthier Diets
Research findings indicate that eating healthier can significantly enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatment and improve the ability to recover from and manage side effects. By focusing on a nutritious diet, individuals undergoing cancer treatment can boost their overall health and well-being, empowering their bodies to better combat the disease and its impact. Questions and confusion about diet and nutrition are a common concern often brought up by cancer patients, survivors, and their caregivers. AdventHealth Cancer Institute and AdventHealth Whole Health Institute have partnered together to create Cooking Up Comfort Culinary Medicine for Cancer.
Lisa Markley, MS, RDN is the Director of Culinary Medicine at AdventHealth’s Whole Health Institute where she develops fun and engaging educational programs that integrate the art of preparing, cooking, and presenting food with the science of medicine to achieve improved health outcomes.
Cooking Up Comfort is taught by Lisa Markley, MS, RDN, LD and will feature Cancer Institute providers. The program consists of 6 sessions over a 6-month period. Individuals may sign up for individual sessions at any point.
Each session will include a cooking demonstration featuring convenient, easy and tasty ways to prepare and cook Foods That Fight Cancer.
This free-of-charge program is brought to you by the generosity and compassion of community supporters, through the AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation, to ensure that all patients and family members/ caretakers may learn how healthy eating can impact healing.
Through this program, participants will learn:
How to bridge the gap between diet and lifestyle recommendations.
Skills to adopt a cancer-supportive diet.
How to apply concepts and recommendations from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
How to mitigate side effects of cancer treatment with nutritional strategies.
Simple, easy to prepare recipes that taste good.
