Collaboration will improve the safe integration of all therapies during your experience with cancer. They are required to convert food in to energy and to help the body manufacture hormones, blood cells, and nervous system chemicals.
Vitamins are substances that the body requires for good health and development.
The majority of vitamins are not made by the body itself, so they must be obtained from food or through vitamin supplements. A prudent diet with the normal high fruit, high vegetable, low fat intake will provide vitamin and mineral requirements for cancer prevention. Vitamin supplements are not necessary if intake is sufficient through the diet recommended by the Canada Food Guide. Observational epidemiologic studies have suggested a possible decrease in the prevalence of cancer in people who consume higher amounts of fruits and vegetables, foods high in beta-carotene, and this decrease may be through their antioxidant effect. The literature is rife with anecdotal reports of antioxidant properties of many foods or food additives.