I'm only adding my opinion because I am constantly asking my doctors and dieticians for advice on eating. One of the suggestions from my dietician as far as supplements go has been fish oil capsules. She advised looking for very high DHA (even suggesting that Costco carried a very good brand)Little did I know that I needed to be taking six of the ones I had on hand per day. Outside of the zinc ( for taste) those are the only two supplements that anyone has suggested to me.

I'm a huge fan of vegetables and fruit, except in my quest to gain weight, I've reversed my strategy to really trying to get high calories in. This means, I eat a great deal of foods that I would have avoided prior to becoming ill. I've probably eaten more ice cream in the past two months than I have in a lifetime. Despite the cost, my local Starbucks knows me as I make it a daily duty to get a huge carmel frappacino souped up with a shot of malt and loaded with whole milk and whipped cream.

It seems to be that almost all my food choices these days are determined by the highest calorie possibilities. This includes fast food and sodas. To try to balance it out, I stocked up on V-8 vegetable juice and 100% fruit juice.

Alarmed at how much sugar and fattening stuff I've been consuming (I've even been drinking heavy whipping cream from the local dairy) I had to ask both my chemo oncologist and my dietician if all this sugar and fat was healthy. They both assured me that ANY and all calories at this point was a good thing.

My latest trend is to eat as much as possible prior to bedtime. It felt absolutely sinful to eat a piece of white mocha carmel cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory in bed last night.

Jen