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ACEF’s Mindful Eating and Living (MEAL) Class

July 14, 2016 by Werner Absenger

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MEAL is a clinically proven, six-week mindful eating program*. You’ll learn an entirely new approach to healthy eating, weight loss, and stress reduction.

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Filed Under: Articles, Nutrition & Cancer

5 Mindful Eating Tips to Put One Over Obesity and Pull Off Weight Loss

August 5, 2015 by Werner Absenger

5 Mindful Eating Tips to Put One Over Obesity and Pull Off a Healthy BMI

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The hypothetical gut-brain-gut communication from Part 1 of how mindful eating can help you achieve weight loss in practice.

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5 Mindful Eating Tips to Wangle Yourself to Healthy BMI: Stomach Brain Axis

August 1, 2015 by Werner Absenger

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Weight loss diet and exercise for obesity do not work. A mindful eating program can probably help you achieve a healthy BMI.

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Filed Under: Articles, Nutrition & Cancer

A Healthy Eating Plan for Cancer Support: The Revive & Thrive Project Delivers

May 22, 2015 by Werner Absenger

Young people as volunteer gardeners and chefs who experience the transformative power of serving and nurturing those in need while developing cooking and healthy eating skills.

Young people as volunteer gardeners and chefs who experience the transformative power of serving and nurturing those in need while developing cooking and healthy eating skills. (Photos Surfer Mick)

The Revive & Thrive Project delivers free, nutritious meals cooked by teen volunteer gardeners and chefs for cancer support.

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How to find the Perfect Diet for Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Systematic Approach

March 3, 2015 by Werner Absenger

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The perfect diet for cancer patients and healthy nutrition have always been a hotly debated, controversial topic.

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Filed Under: Articles, Nutrition & Cancer, Nutrition Consultation

A Mindful Eating Program: Answer to Obesity and Cancer?

January 12, 2015 by Werner Absenger

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Mindful eating, obesity, and cancer.

If you are not familiar with mindful eating, maybe it is time to familiarize yourself with this construct.

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Filed Under: ACEF Programs, Articles, Mindful Eating, Nutrition & Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer Patients, Obesity and Weight Loss: How To Increase Longevity?

August 23, 2013 by Werner Absenger

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Can and should pancreatic cancer patients find ways to be physically active?
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A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer carries with it an often unfathomable prognosis. Pancreatic cancer patients face complicated decisions pertaining quality of life issues as well as life expectancy. For many pancreatic cancer patients, life prolongation becomes a principal issue.

What I am going to report here is by no means a panacea that will fix all problems, but it might be crucial knowledge that sufferers from pancreatic cancer and their loved ones can wrap their heads around and work with.

I am going to use a fictional set of identical twins “Alice” and Allyson,” to highlight the exciting impact the original study by Dalal et al. [1] could have on life extension for pancreatic cancer patients. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Nutrition & Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer: Seaweed’s Secret Cancer Fighting Benefits

April 30, 2013 by Werner Absenger

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Seaweed is an important source of protein, iodine, vitamins and minerals and could have chemo preventive potential.

Revealed… at least in the Petri dish1. We’ll get back to that in a couple of paragraphs.

 Short Intro to the Topic

Cancer patients and their healthcare providers need reliable cancer diet information. How so? A recent paper published by Champ et al.2 highlights the predicament faced by cancer patients as well their primary-care physicians to find good, reliable information on diet and cancer.

I will not go in much detail, but out of 21 National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) institutions, only four (19%) provided cancer diet guidelines. One third (7) of all NCCN sites linked to nine external websites. Only 44% of the external sites offered cancer diet guidelines to cancer patients2. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Nutrition & Cancer

Breast Cancer Patients and Nutritional Supplements during Cancer Chemotherapy

March 9, 2013 by Werner Absenger

Supplement Use of Breats Cancer Patients

Breast cancer patients ask me about specific dietary supplements to use during their journey through cancer quite a bit. One of the complaints I hear sometimes is that patients’ physicians are exceedingly vague in rendering nutrition advice, many discourage the use of dietary supplements during chemotherapy, and then there are those who advocate the use of nutritional supplements during chemotherapy. So what is a person to do? Look at the evidence, right? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Cancer

Fish Oil Supplements May Help Prevent Skin Cancer in Women

March 2, 2013 by Werner Absenger

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Fish Oil Supplements May Help Prevent Skin Cancer in Women

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. Annually more than 2 million people are treated for basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer. Basal cell skin cancer is the most common form of skin cancer (National Cancer Institute, 2011).

You might find the following information, just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition practical. The article details provided below might give you more information when considering all options for the prevention or treatment of skin cancer. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Cancer Tagged With: American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition, Cancer, Fish Oil, Pilkington, Preventing Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer, Skin Cancers

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