Ask TracyFood: food and chemotherapy? Answer: Chris knows! 16 December 2008 2:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice,eating,friends,guest post,health,interviews,nutrition , 2 commentsSo a month ago, my friend Ed Parker wrote me a question:
Hello Tracy,
I have a friend whose father suffers from lack of appetite due to chemotherapy. I’m trying to get some menus together for him and wondering if you know of any websites or information reference to food and chemotherapy….
Thanks,
Eddie
While I don’t know a lot about nutrition, I probably know even less about cancer and chemotherapy. However, one of the greatest things I keep learning as I get older is that I don’t need to know everything — I just need to know how to ask people who know stuff I don’t. So, enter the guest post!
My friend Christine does know a thing or two about cancer and chemo both, so after reading Eddie’s message, I wrote some email, asked a bunch of questions, and got more answer than I can fit in one TracyFood entry. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting her wisdom in a few installments, and thinking of more questions to ask, in case it turns out we’re serious about writing a book like we keep talking about over instant messages. Here we go… (more…)
