Eat Your Way to Lymphatic Health and Wellness
- Speaker:
- Jean LaMantia, RD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 02 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 23, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS065638
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Are you out of ideas to help your patients with lymphedema? Are you taking two steps forward and one step back? Are your patients inadvertently undoing all your good work by eating the wrong foods?
Well look no further!
Learn how you can help yourself to help your patients by understanding the powerful connection between food and the lymphatic system.
Join registered dietitian and published author Jean LaMantia and discover her top 8 nutrition strategies to boost lymphatic health, and the evidence behind them.
In just one hour, you’ll learn how to guide your patients to become unstuck in their eating habits and start to see consistent progress with reduced swelling.
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Eat your Way to LH (5.99 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Jean LaMantia, RD Related seminars and products
Jean LaMantia, RD, is a registered dietician, cancer survivor, author and speaker. She has been a dietitian for 30+ years and has written three books on the topics of cancer, lymphedema and intermittent fasting. Jean has worked in in-patient, diabetes education, home care, health club and now her virtual private practice and on-line school. Jean has been a repeat invited speaker for the National Lymphedema Network as well as the Canadian Lymphedema Framework national conferences. She has been published in Pathways – Canada’s national lymphedema magazine and spoken for several provincial lymphedema associations including Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. She is currently writing the nutrition position paper for the NLN and has been invited to speak at the AVLS conference. She has spoken to the Oncology DPG as well as state conferences and Dietitians of Canada, oncology network and diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular network.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jean LaMantia maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Wellspring Cancer Support Agency. She receives royalties as a published author. Jean LaMantia receives a speaking honorarium from Amoena Canada. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Jean LaMantia is a contributor to Pathways Magazine. She is a member of Dietitians of Canada, the National Lymphedema Network, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the Oncology DPG.
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Objectives
After attending this session, the participant will be able to:- State at least 4 nutrition strategies to improve lymphedema and lymphatic health.
- Describe the connection between inflammation, gut health, diet and lymphedema.
Outline
The Role of Fluid and Sodium and Appropriate Targets- Understand how sodium and fluid guidelines are set
- Discover reasonable targets for sodium and fluid
- Explore the connection between lymphedema and inflammation
- Understand the evidence between diet and inflammation
- See the potential for diet as a away to reduce risk or slow progression
- Visualize the anatomy of the gut lymphatics
- Understand the role of probiotics, prebiotics and gut microbiota
- Sort out fact from fiction for dietary recommendations for gut health
- Explore protein requirements for the general health population
- Discuss how lymphedema and wound care impacts protein requirements
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