Eating well to stay healthy

By improving your nutrition you can help to boost your natural defence mechanisms as well as improve your energy and vitality. We are interested in helping you learn more about good quality, nutritious and appetising food and how it can help you. We do not advocate extreme or faddy diets.

 
Guidelines for healthy eating
Breast Cancer Haven suggests you eat a range of foods high in fruit and vegetables, grains and pulses containing antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and fibre to ensure overall health and wellbeing. Where practical, we suggest that foods should be organically grown and in season. We suggest reducing levels of saturated fats (except when weight loss is a serious problem), refined carbohydrates, additives, preservatives, processed foods, hydrogenated fats and stimulants such as alcohol, tea and coffee.

• Nutrition: Your nutritional consultation at the Haven. To print out a 14 page factsheet on nutrition, click here.
• Make a smoothie: For a printable breakfast smoothie recipe, click here.
• Tasty recipes for you to try at home: To print out our free 34 page recipe book, please click here.
• Make a healthy juice drink: For a quick juice recipe that you can print out, click here.
• How to sprout seeds and use them: For printable information on how to sprout seeds, click here.