If you’re trying to create an anti-cancer kitchen, then remember these three numbers: Continue reading
Your Anti-Cancer Kitchen: What to do about all that Plastic?
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Anti-Cancer Foods: Radishes are more than they’re cracked up to be
What’s so great about this week’s anti-cancer food–plain, pungent radishes? Let’s talk methylation, for starters.
Anti-Cancer Foods: How to Handle Garlic, Part 2
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Anti-Cancer Foods: Microgreens, Baby Green Warriors
Have you added microgreens to your anti-cancer foods list?
They’re not cheap, but ounce for ounce, these tiny first leaves of edible seedlings boast lots more nutrients than their mature counterparts. And the best part :
Anti-Cancer Foods: A Yellow Tea to Enhance your Green
What’s on your anti-cancer diet menu this morning? Oat bran and green tea? How about combining the green leaves with these yellow buds for some special effects? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Nancy’s Triple-Star Tabbouleh
Before you head out to the market today, take a peek at this sample anti-cancer recipe from my upcoming book, “How to Create Your Plantastic Kitchen.” Try this simple, tasty, refreshing salad– all ingredients in perfect proportions (just like the recipe’s creator).
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Anti-Cancer Foods: An “Unusual Vegetable”
This week’s New York Times Diner’s Journal called it an “unusual vegetable,” but they didn’t tell you about the anti-cancer value of this stranger. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: What’s Wrong with Dr. Oz’s Beet Juice?
Dr. Oz’s raw beet juice may lower your blood pressure, but the recipes he’s flagging have no place in your anti-cancer kitchen.
For example? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Outrage: Thirdhand Smoke
Every so often in this anti-cancer blog, the science propels us to deviate from our nutrition and cancer focus and report to you on compelling research.
Remember secondhand smoke—the kind you get from nearby smokers? Now it turns out that thirdhand smoke, which clings to surfaces long after the source has departed, is also deadly—maybe even more so. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer News: Did you see the New York Times?
Dear followers,
Had to share this news with you: My latest anti-cancer article for Zester Daily made the New York Times! Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Strategies: Top 10 Foods to Decrease Inflammation
Note: Since this article first appeared in 2013, research has revealed that the amino acid methionine may fuel cancer. Uniquely among amino acids, it causes cells to produce free radicals of oxygen as they burn it for energy. Researcher Dr. Paul Cavuoto suggests that people with cancer should limit methionine to 1 gram a day max. That means restricing animal foods, even those with high omega 3 content. One 3 oz portion of cooked salmon has almost 700 mg–comparable to poultry and meat. Brazil nuts are also high in methionine. For more on the methionine story, read this piece, written in early 2016.
“One of the most significant medical discoveries of the 21st century is that inflammation is the common thread connecting chronic diseases,” writes Dr. Mark Hyman, author of several books on health and wellness. The conditions he’s talking about include diabetes, heart disease, obesity and even cancer, all driven by inflammatory foods in your diet. But the good news is Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Celebrations: World Ovarian Cancer Day
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Today is World Ovarian Cancer Day, and I have one word for you: flavonoids. These compounds give plants their color, and many appear to be anti-cancerous. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer News Flash: Pesticides and Teas
Dear fellow Anti-Cancer Warriors,
I’ve got some bad news and a silver lining. Remember the Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice herbal tea my friends and family adore? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Should you Cook Onions?
Now that your anti-cancer kitchen is brimming with small red and yellow onions, the obvious question is: Should you cook them or eat them raw?
The short answer: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Where’s the Healthy Fat in Salmon? Surprise!
So you’ve splurged on an exquisite hunk of wild sockeye for your anti-cancer dinner–or maybe you’ve just sprung open a can, also good if you select the right brands. But you must, must, must eat the fat in salmon in order to get its anti-cancer benefits.
Do you really know what that fat looks like? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Strategies: Wine, Women and Breast Cancer
Experts have been warning us for a long while. Now there’s another study that’s even more scary: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Strategies: Bring on the Leftover Carbs!
Want to sneak a few satisfying starches into your anti-cancer diet– say some hot, mushy sweet potatoes ?
Here’s how:
Anti-Cancer Strategies: What Foods help Lower your Blood Sugar?
Can you name 10 foods that help lower your blood sugar and thus belong in your anti-cancer diet? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Strategies: Fats and Fasting, a Revolutionary Weapon for an Aggressive Enemy
Could coconut fat help turn the tide in the anti-cancer battle?
Update: Ketogenic diets may not offer the solution that scientists hoped for, but looking at how cancer cells burn fuel for energy is for sure generating insight into how cancer grows and spread. Since this article was published, some scientists have found that cancers can switch to feeding on ketones, which are generated by fat. They’ve also added some fatty acids to the list of nutrients that cancer cells may feed on. Palmitic acid, which is in coconut, may feed cancer, especially in people with certain genetic profiles. The good news is that scientists have also identified phytonutrients that keep cancer cells from using fatty acids as fuels. Among them, luteolin–present in radicchio, thyme, sage, parsley, celery flakes and seeds–is key.
Is the war on cancer now witnessing its own D-Day, a turning point in the anti-cancer fight that will change the world for good?
With the recent settlement of a major lawsuit among scientists over who owns the rights to new revolutionary approaches to managing cancer, all the experts in the field are presumably now free to talk openly—and what they’re talking about is a radical new view of the disease.
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Have a Berry Merry Tea Party!
Now that the holidays are behind us, let’s get back to celebrating life with some simple, health-promoting anti-cancer recipes. Instead of wine and canapés, treat yourself to a Berry Merry Tea Party—a handful of goji berries along with a cup of the finest tea. Here’s the black and white—and green and red—on your tea choices.
For any of you with cancer, please read the last three questions first. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: How to Make Turmeric More Potent and Tasty
Here’s your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: an anti-cancer recipe for a Turmeric Concoction. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: So Many Alternatives to Cow’s Milk
Now that you’re eliminating mammary secretions on your anti-cancer diet, how do you decide which alternative to buy? It took a spreadsheet to figure out the answer. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: How to Handle Garlic, Part 1
Yearning to know the best ways of preserving garlic’s anti-cancer properties? Continue reading
Fukushima Update: Still Fishy
A year and a half post disaster and contamination levels in nearby fish are not declining as should be expected, reports marine chemist Dr. Ken Buesseler in an article for Science magazine. We need to know why, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist has been stating publicly for months now.
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Should you Cook Cabbage?
November 2013 update: Please read the groundbreaking news about crucifers! Scientists have recently discovered that lightly steamed cabbage has more anti-cancer compounds than raw cabbage (with one exception: qing gin cai is best raw)–and that you can cook any cabbage any way you want as long as you eat a little raw crucifer in the same meal. Radish, mustard, watercress, wasabi–any raw crucifer will do.
Most people will tell you to eat cabbage for its anti-cancer compounds, but they don’t explain that how you prepare it is key. If you want to get the anti-cancer benefits from cabbage, then heed this advice: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: No Sugar, Lots of Spice and other Zesty Thoughts
Note: Writer-Producer Harriet Sugar Miller has been a health journalist and cancer survivor for almost two decades. In her past life (before children), she practiced law in NYC.
Although Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month wraps today, the disease remains– and will always be the beast that roused this anti-cancer blog.
In the words of McGill University’s Dr. Gerald Wiviott, we all need a trigger to help us get off our bums (Canadian for “butts”) and make changes: Inspiration, Motivation, Provocation and Support. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer News: RIP Rice, even Brown Organic
The news this past week—that some rice and rice products are contaminated with arsenic—should spark a change in your anti-cancer eating habits.
Here’s the short version of the story: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Here’s to a Berry Good Year!
Summer’s waning. It’s your last chance to gather these anti-cancer wonders and preserve their pleasures for those long, winter nights. Get out today, and buy a bushel or four along with a large cookie sheet that will fit in your freezer, then Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Pick Leeks
When it comes to anti-cancer properties, some vegies tower above the others. Put leeks on top of that list. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Breakfast Recipes: What Grain is Best for your Blood Sugar?
Hint: For an anti-cancer diet, one of these tops your choice of grains:
a/ steel cut oats b/ oat flakes c/ oat bran. Which one?
Anti Cancer Recipes: How to Grill Surprisingly Great Sardines
Gills down, this anti-cancer recipe wins the tastiest meal of the summer— Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Can Flaxseed Stave off Prostate Cancer?
We know that flaxseed appears to be an anti-cancer food for women and it may just do wonders for our sex drive, but what about for our men: Does it fight prostate cancer, too? Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Can Flaxseed Stave off Breast Cancer?
Know anyone who has breast cancer? Doing your best to avoid it? Then consider this: Studies are showing that flaxseed can protect against breast cancer and prolong survival in women who have it. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Can Eggs Cause Ovarian Cancer?
Should you include eggs in your anti-cancer diet? To be perfectly honest, Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: Beware the Roasted Chicken
Yikes. I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but you might want to reconsider Grandma’s precious recipe. Roasted chicken, it turns out, is more pro- than anti-cancerous. Here are two reasons why: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: What’s for Drinking?
If you’ve been following the anti-cancer recipes in this blog, then you already have some ideas. Besides good old- fashioned water (not from a plastic bottle, especially if it’s been sitting around in heat), here are some healthy options: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipes: What’s for Breakfast?
Hey, guys. It might be a bit difficult at first to wrap your new anti-cancer brain around this one, but you’ll get used to it: Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Recipe: Lemons, Limes, Limonene
Note: One of the pitfalls of a plant-based diet is that some foods can soften the enamel on teeth. The acid in citrus can definitely do that, As a reader suggests, the solution is to rinse your mouth with water. And wait an hour or so before brushing. You don’t want to brush enamel that’s been softened.
D-limonene, to be precise. Put it in your anti-cancer vocabulary. It’s a member of a very fragrant class of molecules that abound in citrus–terpenoids or terpenes. And they’ve been shown to inhibit cancer cell progression and induce cell death. Continue reading
How to Eat Out on an Anti-Cancer Diet
Sure, we’re trying to stick to an anti-cancer diet, but we still have to enjoy ourselves, right? And that means eating in restaurants every so often, indulging in some Kaeng Red (Red Thai curry, pictured here), but hold the chicken, lots of broccoli, please. Continue reading
Anti-Cancer Outrage: Shame on You, Canada
Bush-whacking the environment. That’s the best way to describe Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s George W. Bush-esque approach: When you can’t change the laws with public approval, just go ahead and do it any way you can. Continue reading
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