Receiving a cancer diagnosis is an overwhelming experience. Both the symptoms and the treatments can be exhausting, and recovery is sometimes a longer process than anticipated.

In addition to physical effects, the illness and its treatments have profound emotional effects as well—including on relationships. Everyone has well-meaning advice and wants to help, but not everyone knows how to.

That is especially the case for the changing dietary needs and tolerances experienced by cancer patients.

America eats more meat now than ever. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted at the beginning of 2018 that Americans would eat a record 222.2 pounds per person this year.
 
But at the same time, more and more Americans are turning to a flexitarian, vegetarian or vegan diet.