Eating well during and after cancer can help you feel better, keep up your strength and energy, maintain your weight, tolerate side effects, decrease risk of infection, and help you heal and recover quickly. Get simple, clear information on the benefits of a balanced diet and the potential effects of dietary supplements, foods alleged to have anti-cancer properties, and 'special' diets promoted as cures for cancer. Learn to make healthful day-to-day decisions about what to eat and what to avoid in order to stay and maximize the benefits of treatments. Let the experts at the American Cancer Society help you put the science of good nutrition into practice.