Cancer patients can learn about nutrition

Cancer patients face many obstacles to their personal health, including figuring out what to eat – both for nutrition, and to be healthy.

Integrative Pharmacist Alan Simon, R.Ph., will help steer them through what foods need to be included in their diet in a free talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, 2008 in the Baptist Hospital East Education Center, 4000 Kresge Way.

Simon specializes in integrative medicine and clinical nutrition. Besides selecting certain foods for their daily diet, cancer patients may want to carefully choose supplements approved by their oncologist, Simon said.

Simon, a practicing registered pharmacist for 32 years, has a consultation practice and specializes in integrative natural medicine, clinical nutrition, herb and drug interactions, and drug-induced nutrient depletions.

Simon lectures to various support groups on nutrition, supplementation, and obstacles to health. He conducted a program for the Kentucky Psychological Association and aired on WFPL 89.3FM's “Health Works” and “State of Affairs” discussing dietary supplementation, nutrition, holistic health and integrative medicine.

For more information, or to register, call the Baptist Hospital East Information Center at (502) 897-8131, or e-mail BHEInfoCenter@bhsi.com.