those first early rounds of chemo would be lying on our daybed having this poison pumped into us

that we very much all very much hope was doing as good and then this trolley would come

around pushed by volunteers or were the nicest people.

But this trolley was full of fizzy drinks, chocolate bars, crisps, you know, and you were all encouraged,

you know, have a chocolate bar, have a, just seemed to me really shocking.

Well, you probably don't need me to tell you that that's the voice of Sheila Dylan, esteemed food journalist and BBC broadcaster,

notably of Radio 4's The Food Programme, and she wants food to feature much more heavily in our

conversations about cancer.

This is the Liz Earl Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

I'm Liz Earl and as you probably know by now I am on a mission to find ways for us all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

And with cancer predicted to affect at least half of us listening right here.

The food, being something that nourishes all of us, seems a very fitting discussion for us to be having.

Well Sheila has been a food journalist for more than three decades. She was an editor at

Food Monitor magazine in New York and then came to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, first as a reporter, then producer and now presenter. She also helped set up the prestigious

BBC Food and Farming Awards, of which I've had the honour of participating in, well, she's robustly researched and scrutinised everything from the

dodgy science behind quote healthy margarine a personal bugbear of mine which I write about actually in my new book about a second half to the growth of the organic food movement another personal fave which will touch on but it's her professional and personal lives colliding that I really want to focus on today.

In 2011 Sheila was diagnosed with a cancer of the bone marrow

which informed a new line of research for her. Is there a connection between what we eat and cancer risk?

In fact, listener Jenny recently wrote on Instagram at Liz our Well it would, quote, be a good chat to have dietary help

about post-cancer. Well Jenny, I really hope that you find this particular conversation useful. Hello, it's Jordan and William here for help I sexed my boss. We're now going to tell you all about

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