Nutrition and breast cancer
Delivering lifestyle interventions for prevention and management of breast cancer
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 7pm to 8pm AEST
The presentation will cover:
The issue of weight
Factors changing outcomes after breast cancer diagnosis
Weight control and exercise
Metabolic syndrome and metformin
Dietary fat, alcohol, fruit, vegetables, soy, dairy and nutritional supplements
Lifestyle, healthy bones and lymphoedema for breast cancer patients
Delivering lifestyle interventions: The How, When & Who.
Our research: The B-AHEAD studies
Future research priorities
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About the Presenter
Dr. Michelle Harvie is a research dietitian from the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre (University Hospital of South Manchester). She qualified as a dietitian in 1991. Her current research covers optimum diet and exercise strategies to prevent breast cancer and its recurrence. She has written more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, including three self-help guides to the intermittent diet: The 2 Day Diet (Ebury, Feb. 2013); The 2 Day Diet Cookbook (Ebury, April 2013) and The 2 Day Diet: The Quick and Easy Edition (Ebury, Feb. 2014). All author proceeds go to the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention charity. She has been awarded the 2005 British Dietetic Association Rose Simmonds Award for her paper on weight gain among breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. She also received the National Association for the Study of Obesity National Best Practice Award in 2010 for her work on intermittent energy restricted diets. Dr. Harvie is principal investigator for the B-AHEAD 2 trial and B-AHEAD 3 trials testing intermittent diets among early and advanced breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
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