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Is your diet profiding everything you need?

Maintaining your weight during cancer treatment is so important. The loss of as little as 5 percent of your body weight can adversely affect your response to cancer therapy. But maintaining your weight is important for more than just your fight against the disease — it's essential for your quality of life.

Slowing your weight loss and building and maintaining lean body mass can give you more energy for the independence and activities you treasure — like spending a morning in the garden or an evening with friends and family.

What JUVEN Is and How It Can Help

 

Juven® is a therapeutic nutrition drink designed to help fight loss of lean body mass in people with cancer. Juven contains a unique blend of three key ingredients — HMB, arginine and glutamine. You can find these three natural components in a healthy body.

• HMB (β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate) helps build lean body mass and protects cell strength and structure.
• Arginine is an amino acid (building block of protein) key for building lean body mass and for immune cell development.
• Glutamine is an amino acid (building block of protein) key for building lean body mass and fueling immune cells and gastrointestinal (GI) cells.

By working together, these three ingredients help counteract changes caused by cancer that lead to weight and muscle loss. The blend of all these important nutrients makes Juven effective for adding muscle to your fight against cancer.

A clinical study among people with cancer showed that drinking Juven daily as part of overall care for a four-week period helped build muscle. Muscle is important to help you feel strong and remain active and independent.

Drinking Juven — twice a day — also supplies these additional benefits for those living with cancer:

• Helps build lean body mass without fat gain1,2
• Provides only 1g of sugar per serving (orange flavor)
• Supports healing3
• Offers an excellent source of calcium

 

Start Drinking Juven Early

 

The earlier you start Juven, the easier it may be to manage, or even hold off, your weight and muscle loss. A loss of as little as 5 percent of your body weight may reduce your ability to continue your cancer treatment. Slowing your weight loss and building and maintaining lean body mass can give you more energy for the independence and activities you treasure.

You may see results in as little as four weeks by adding just two servings a day to your regular diet.

Talk with your health care professional to see if Juven is right for you.

 

 

Cancer Treatment Challenges

Lean Body Mass and Weight Loss

 

Maintaining your weight during cancer treatment is so important. The loss of as little as 5 percent of your body weight can adversely affect your response to cancer therapy. But maintaining your weight is important for more than just your fight against the disease — it's essential for your quality of life.

Slowing your weight loss and building and maintaining lean body mass can give you more energy for the independence and activities you treasure — like spending a morning in the garden or an evening with friends and family.

 

What Is Lean Body Mass?

 

Lean body mass is functional tissue that is vital for life.1 Specifically, it consists of all components of the body (muscle, bones, organs, skin) except fat. Maintaining LBM is essential for strength, organ function, skin integrity, wound healing and immunity. You may be losing LBM if you have weakness, fatigue, lack of strength or energy, loss of appetite, early satiety (feeling full sooner than normal or after eating less than usual), or weight loss.

How Cancer Causes Weight Loss

 

Weight loss due to cancer is different from weight loss due to dieting. Certain types of cancer cause changes in the body that result in decreased appetite, burning more calories than normal and increased breakdown of lean body mass.

When your body fights cancer, this response can continue indefinitely. The cancer produces substances that alter the metabolism of protein, carbohydrates and fat, and cause your body to burn calories faster than you can ordinarily replace them.

If you do not address these metabolic changes, eating more food or using conventional nutritional drinks may not be enough to prevent or reverse your weight and muscle loss.

 

Cancer Types Most Likely to Cause Loss of Lean Body Mass

 

• Colon
• Esophagus
• Head and Neck
• Kidney
• Pancreas
• Rectum
• Stomach
• Breast
• Leukemia*
• Ovarian*
• Prostate*

*Advanced Stages

 

Wound Healing

 

During the course of your cancer therapy, you may experience treatment-related wounds — especially following surgery. If you experience any type of injury or wound during treatment, it may take more time than normal to heal. To properly heal wounds, your body must form collagen. Collagen is a major component of skin and other tissue, and its creation is an essential part of the body’s tissue repair process, including wound closure. So, increasing the amount of collagen in your body can help speed the healing process.

 

No Reason to Wait

 

Sometimes a balanced diet alone isn’t enough to help you maintain and restore lean body mass. Rest or therapy isn’t always enough to help you heal. Ask your doctor, nurse or dietitian about supplementing your diet. But before you talk to your health care team,

 

What JUVEN Contains and How to Use It

 

Juven® is a light, refreshing nutrition drink that comes in powder form in two great-tasting flavors: orange and grape. Juven is a medical food that must be used under medical supervision and as part of a complete, balanced diet. Typically, people using Juven drink one serving twice a day. Allow at least four weeks to see progress when you use Juven as recommended.

 

Preparation

 

Mix one pack of Juven with 8 to 10 fl oz of cold water or fruit juice, and stir until the powder is dissolved. (Juven should not be mixed with hot liquid.) Juven is best when you mix it right before you drink it. If you mix Juven ahead of time, refrigerate it in a clean, covered container for up to 24 hours.

You can also mix Juven with yogurt, applesauce or ice cream to add variety to your diet.

 

 

 

Dosing and Administration Guide

 

For people who may require it, Juven can be administered through a gastrostomy or nasoenteric feeding tube as recommended by your health care professional. Juven is not for use as a sole source of nutrition.

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