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We recently hosted an exclusive webinar, “Navigating the Importance of Nutrition After a Cancer Diagnosis” with Rachel Beller, MS, RDN, an established registered dietitian, best-selling author, and founder of The Beller Nutritional Institute, specializing in oncology nutrition and weight management.
Rachel has been featured on TV programs including The Biggest Loser, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, and more. In this discussion, Rachel shares the latest research on how nutrition can support your treatment outcomes, recovery, and overall health after a cancer diagnosis. She provides practical strategies for creating a balanced diet, explore advancements in oncology nutrition, and address common challenges that cancer patients face. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to learn directly from a leading registered nutritionist.
**Transcript below**
We’re almost at the end. Quickly, I’m going to go over some other ways for you to elevate your meals. I love this. My patients feel very inspired with simple things. These are like, I call them difference makers, little things that you can add to your meal to take them to the next level when it comes to anti-cancer properties.
I’m going to share just a few. Mushrooms are great because they’re rich in Aromatase Inhibitors and those beta-glucans, those fibers that support our immune system, that help the good bacteria in our gut grow and thrive thrive. There’s lots of lots of research on mushrooms and you don’t just have to go to a powder. You want to be careful with some of these powders too because some of them don’t even contain what they say they contain.
First, I think I have a slide here. Fresh mushrooms, buy them wherever you can. Farmers Market, Costco, I’m obsessed. They have at least four different organic mushrooms most of the time and it makes it easier and more budget friendly to incorporate it. Then the second thing you could do is buy dehydrated mushrooms. You just cook it like spaghetti. Just boiling water 30 minutes, strain it, squeeze the water out, and sauté it. You’re good to go.
The next thing would be not necessarily this brand but you could entertain using a powder, if you want, to stir into different foods but really the first two are where it’s at and really you want to focus on that and invest in that.
Sesame seeds, Tahini paste, another one that’s great. It’s the second richest source of ligin after flax seed. Very protective when it comes to breast health and that is probably the best dressing that you can add to your salad. It’s easy, don’t over complicate, just get a little bit of raw tahini in a jar, put it in a blender cup, half a cup of water, lemon juice, a spice blend to elevate it, blend it, that’s it, done! You don’t even have to measure exactly, but it’s very powerful.
Water Cress CDC ranked at number one nutrient dense vegetable. It’s rich in indole-3-carbinol, which may help fight breast cancer and it is fantastic to add. You can’t bottle this stuff up, you can’t put it into a powder. It’s in your produce section. There’s so much for us to do there.
That’s another one and of course broccoli sprouts. I’m sure you guys have heard about this but I just always want to bring it up and encourage you you to, at least twice a month, buy a little box or grow it, but what’s amazing about it is what just two tablespoons of broccoli sprouts can do. Imagine you’ve got a good cancer fighting meal it’s amazing and then you up the ante you actually add two tablespoons of broccoli sprouts which has the same amount of the active cancer fighting compound in broccoli. It has as much as two pounds of mature broccoli. It’s incredible! Just incredible! The micro broccoli would be the second choice. They’re very popular right now, these micro-greens. They’re not as concentrated as broccoli sprouts, but, of course, they’re still amazing!
Horseradish, people are always telling me what do I do with it? Pick up a jar. You can upgrade your dips. it’s not for just for steak. You can buy a tub of hummus and stir it in there. It’s rich in something called glucosinolates which are very strong anti-cancer properties and so you know keep it simple.
