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Nutrition plays an important role in maintaining body weight within a healthy range and in improving and maintaining the health and well-being of cancer survivors. Avoiding weight gain and maintaining a healthy body weight over time have been shown to be challenging in cancer survivors. Optimal nutrition strategies to avoid weight gain, achieve weight loss, and achieve healthy weight maintenance are important to promote the overall health of cancer survivors. Improvements in the understanding of the role of obesity and nutrition approaches to weight management in cancer survivorship have been made over the decade since we authored the original chapter. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the mechanisms involved in body weight regulation and dietary intervention strategies for weight loss and healthy weight maintenance.

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