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Nutrition Resources for Cancer

If you would like to know more about the relationship between nutrition and cancer, here are some excellent sources of accurate information (listed in alphabetical order). Note: We recommend you at least skim through the list before jumping to one of the items near the beginning of the alphabet.

American Cancer Society

This well-known organization provides some good information on nutrition. For example, you can enter "nutrition" into their site search feature and you'll get a lot of articles. Also, their website has some interesting recipes from The Kid's First Cookbook.

American Dietetic Association

This excellent site offers a wide variety of information on nutrition and The American Dietetic Association's Nationwide Nutrition Network is a national referral service that links consumers, physicians, food manufacturers, distributors or restaurant owners or managers with registered dietitians. All participants in The American Dietetic Association's Nationwide Nutrition Network (dietitian referral service) are registered dietitians (they have a RD after their name)--professionals who provide reliable, objective nutrition information, separate facts from fads and translate the latest scientific findings into easy-to-understand nutrition information.

In addition to Food and Nutrition Information for consumers and for professionals, you can use their Find A Dietitian referral service to get personalized information. On their Hot Line you can get practical food and nutrition information, call the Consumer Nutrition Hot Line (800-366-1655) for a referral to a registered dietitian in your area and to listen to recorded messages. For customized answers to your food and nutrition questions, dial (900) 225-5267. Calls are $1.95 for the first minute and $.95 for each additional minute.

American Institute for Cancer Research

Established to provide information on cancer and nutrition. This is the nation's leading nonprofit organization funding cancer and nutrition research. Their excellent website contains wonderful, cutting edge, educational materials. AICR publishes a newsletter, cookbooks and a series of brochures. Especially valuable are the diet/nutrition brochures. To order written materials or a publications list, write to AICR, 1759 R Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009. In addition, AICR offers a hotline for nutrition-related cancer inquiries; callers will be connected with a registered dietitian. Call (800) 843-8114.

The Blonz Guide

This site has a long list of links to sites offering information on Nutrition, Food and Fitness, Food Resources and Associations, Health and Medical Resources, etc. Ed Blonz, Ph.D., writes on the homepage, ". . . Being one of an ever-increasing clan of ardent websters, I'm always on the lookout for good sites. It's particularly important for me as I work as scientist/journalist, writing nutrition, foods and health. . . . The "BLONZ GUIDE" is a compilation of my wanderings, assembled in the hope that it will help you find the quality source you seek. . . . My focus is to list sites with reliable information, steering clear of those that push products of questionable scientific merit."

Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D.

Diana is an author of "A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information and Inspiration for Recovery and Healing from a Three-time Cancer Survivor."* Her mission is to provide information and inspiration for cancer survivors regarding nutritional and lifestyle choices that promote the extension and quality of their lives. On her site you will find wonderful recipes.

[* NOTE: By clicking on the title and buying this book from Amazon.com, you help support LPO.]

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database

Want to know whether the supplements you take are actually helping you or may have no benefit or even be harmful? The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) of the National Institutes of Health has compiled a huge online database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is designed to assist the public, health care providers, and researchers in locating credible, scientific literature on dietary supplements. IBIDS was developed and will be maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The IBIDS database currently contains over 328,000 scientific citations and abstracts, wherever permission was given to use them. Due to copyright laws, IBIDS cannot provide full-text articles on the World Wide Web. However, to assist you, they provide a journal list of over 1,500 publications with links to their web sites where you may order the full journal article. You may also obtain them through your local public or university library or online through document delivery services.

Nutrition and Cancer Journal

This is a professional journal of current findings on the effects of nutrition on the etiology, therapy, and prevention of cancer. While you can learn how to subscribe on our page of Books on Nutrition (although at $200 a year it's expensive), Medscape often has articles from the publication.

Ray Sahelian, M.D.

The home page contains this statement, "Interpreting the latest scientific studies on natural supplements---nutrients, herbs and hormones---in order to provide practical, quality of life improving information. Dr. Sahelian does not sell supplements." You will find a number of good articles on Stevia, Creatine, Saw Palmetto, supplements, etc.