Steve Bland

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Taking Control of Cancer · Episode 58: Nutrition and eating well for a healthier life · 29 May 2026 podcast

But it's in addition to energy and repair, it's also about comfort, you know, self-care, enjoyment, celebration. Food is everywhere, isn't it? Particularly in certain cultures, food is a huge part of celebrations, isn't it? Yes, absolutely. And it's how to, well, I was going to say how to do that in a healthy way, but maybe rather than that, it's how to accept that's not going to cause a massive problem if it's not kind of a pattern. voice-verified

Absolutely. Yeah. So it's about adapting. And you rightly said it's also about slowly being aware of portion size because portions have changed over time. I was going to ask you about portion size because there's a lot of advice around obesity, isn't there? And, you know, a lot of that comes down to portion size and, you know, food is something to be enjoyed. Comfort food. I love the term comfort food. I love comfort food. You can tell he's a big foodie. I'm voice-verified

huge foodie but um portion size is a yes is a big thing a big thing for me definitely because I just love food it's not that I you know I wouldn't say gluttonous but I really enjoy enjoy you know eating nice food and voice-verified

And I always have to watch my portion size. And I see it in my son. I was exactly the same as he was. He's 10. I was exactly the same as he was when he was 10. He just eats. And he's as thin as a rake. But he just eats. He has like bottomless legs or something. I don't know where he puts it, but he just eats. And I try and tell him, voice-verified

you know about portion size not really because of cancer risk just because of general health but but it is a big thing I think obesity is one of those things that probably I take issue sometimes with Cancer Research UK and some of their adverts when they the they almost say if you are obese you will get cancer you know it's never exactly like that but it is almost like that and voice-verified

So I think that can make things a little bit easier to follow. Let's talk about the cost of living crisis, because we sort of touched on it a little bit. And we know this part of London has plenty of deprivation, but plenty of people that are living on a really tight budget who probably see nutrition maybe as a want to have rather than a need to have in some cases. voice-verified

How do people balance that idea of eating well, helping to prevent cancer as much as possible, perhaps people with cancer as well? How do you balance that idea of eating well organically if you can, but on a budget as well? Because I imagine, Amanda, a lot of the foods that you're talking about, they're probably not cheap. So how do you balance that idea? voice-verified

buying vegetables. I think often being vegetarian or vegan is quite interesting because I love dishes that are just vegetables, beautiful vegetables, you know, grown and cooked in the right way. I think sometimes, you know, I hate vegan cheese. It tastes like feet. It's just awful. voice-verified

But it costs a lot more money too, doesn't it, than just cooking things from nice vegetables. So when you make these decisions, be it vegan or just eating healthily, it's educating yourself in the way you can do that and not have to spend the earth. voice-verified

which I don't imagine people know an awful lot about. It's the same with food, isn't it? There's all the colour coding, the traffic light system now, which tells you how much sugar, how much salt, all that kind of thing that wasn't perhaps there 10, 15 years ago. And that's really important, isn't it? To educate yourself as to what that means, because there's an awful lot of things that purport to be healthy, which when you look at the numbers on the back, they're not. Exactly. Absolutely correct. Yes. So we definitely encourage people to start reading labels when they have that time. You know, every shopping, we don't have time. voice-verified

And you need calories, don't you? And you need calories. You need calories, and you need carbohydrates, and you need salt, and you need sugar, and you need all these things. They're not evil. These things are not evil. It's balance, isn't it? Yes. voice-verified

literally my energy levels went back up yeah but it just shows again you've got you can't just stop something you've got to try yeah and i think that's the important thing that's something that i find as well that if i if i deny myself things or if i try not to eat things when you do you know break the down you eat and eat and eat and eat and eat you're like give me pizzas and bread and like voice-verified

What's that diet where you fast for two days? Is it a keto diet? I don't know. There's a million ones with different diets. There's certainly one, isn't there, where you eat normally for five days and you fast for two or something? Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

I can remember a few years ago, I've run a few London marathons, and one particular London marathon, I was in the hotel beforehand, and I weighed myself. And I weighed myself after the London marathon. I'd lost half a stone. And I just hadn't been eating enough during the race. And obviously, going through chemo and cancer treatment is very different to a marathon. But it puts a massive strain on your body, doesn't it? And if you're not eating enough and eating the right things during your treatment... voice-verified

fast-forwarding to what we need to eat and what not. What are the big challenges that you found, Amanda, when you were going through your treatment in terms of eating? I guess maybe there's some around time, feeling quite tired, needing some quick fixes sometimes. What are the big challenges that you encountered? voice-verified

I just done it. I guess loads of people think, I mean, I'm probably one of them. There's no way I could be vegan. No chance. I love eating meat. But then I guess when you're faced with something like cancer, probably like, I mean, Rachel, my first wife, when she was going through her treatment, voice-verified

i didn't go vegan but she she there was one particular time she had to get her bloods down to a certain level to get on a trial and so she went so heavy on green stuff just to try and get her blood you know get all her all her bloods and all accounts down to a certain a certain point to get on on this trial actually she couldn't do it in the end she didn't i didn't quite get there but it did start to go the right way um voice-verified

You know, sometimes when people are fasting, when they open up their fast, they end up eating more fat-based foods, more, you know, sugars and those. So, again, it's about finding the right balance. I have two questions because we could go on all day, but I'm wary of the time. I have two questions. Alcohol. Huge, huge nutritional value, I imagine, in alcohol. But what... voice-verified

I'm asking you my own questions, really. This is just you and I talking. My last question was, we've talked a lot about before, before a diagnosis, during treatment. What about afterwards? You know, you might have gone full vegan. You might have just, you made a lot of changes. It might be difficult to continue with that when you don't have perhaps as much motivation. What's your advice afterwards? voice-verified

get back to where I am today. That's a good point to finish on, Nita, isn't it, probably, because all this amazing advice we've been given, I don't want people thinking if they're going through treatment, I can't have a takeaway, you know, every so often. I can't. voice-verified

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