Nutrition and Managing Chronic Disease

Nutrition and Chronic Disease

What is the Role of Nutrition in Managing Chronic Disease?

Nutrition during therapy for a chronic disease can affect your tolerance of your treatment and even your ability to complete your treatment course and fight your disease process.

Avoiding excess weight loss will maintain muscle mass and strength, preserving your ability to continue with your normal activities, the most important factor for your quality of life.

Maintaining your nutritional status can improve your immune function, making you less vulnerable to the infections that can accompany malnutrition. Should your treatment successfully resolve your disease, good nutritional choices may help limit the risk of its recurrence.

Nutrition Counseling Can Help By:

Managing specific eating problems that limit intake of enough calories, protein and nutrients to maintaining your weight and limit the loss of muscle mass that come with rapid weight loss
Identifying and avoiding interactions between food and medications that can limit the effectiveness of your treatments
Preventing/limiting side effects of medications used in treatment
Improving your strength and quality of life
Providing help in selecting the right diet to maximize your recovery and limit the risk of other chronic diseases, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes or cancer
Evaluating nutritional supplements, where appropriate
Making positive changes without reducing your quality of life

Page Last updated: February 23, 2006

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Nutrition Foundations uses a natural approach to disease management. A Registered Dietitian, nutritionist, speaker and university instructor, Colleen has helped many patients with a Crohn’s disease diet, heart healthy diets, Parkinsons diet and nutrition, cancer, high blood pressure, IBS and other GI problems, osteoporosis and many other chronic diseases. She guides patients through difficult decisions around natural cancer supplements, identifying those with possible benefit and potential harm. Colleen assesses your lifestyle carefully and identifies changes that will work for you and will make immediate differences in your health. She is located in Denver, Colorado (CO). You can meet with her in person or on the phone.