Nutrition and eating well

Our new nutrition module within the Preparing for Treatment Service focuses on good nutrition, answers some common questions and myths, and gives you tips to help you manage your eating habits throughout and beyond your treatment.

We all know that a balanced diet is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. But did you know that eating well can help better prepare you for when you need to start treatment for your lymphoma?

Eating well can help to maintain your weight, your strength and your energy in preparation for, throughout, and beyond lymphoma treatment. In this new module, we look at what good nutrition is, why it’s important, how eating can change through treatment, and how eating well can help with side effects of treatment.

There is a lot of confusing information around food and nutrition for lymphoma. What is the new superfood? Should I be taking supplements or herbal remedies? Does sugar feed cancer and should I cut it out of my diet?

In a video you’ll find on the service we talk to specialist haematology dieticians and ask them some commonly asked questions, and they bust some myths around nutrition and lymphoma.

Having treatment can affect your eating habits, including lowered or increased appetite, finding it difficult to eat, taste changes or feeling nauseous or being sick. We have some useful tips from the lymphoma community which have helped them during treatment.

The Preparing for Treatment Service is our online service for you if you are about to start lymphoma treatment, either after diagnosis, after a period of active monitoring or after relapse. It also has information for family and friends who are supporting you.