2016: What’s on and off your Anti-Cancer Platter?

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Chicken’s off the platter if your New Year’s resolutions include restricting methionine–a promising new strategy to fight cancer and forestall aging.

What’s the latest advice that scientists are dishing out for your anti-cancer diet?

  • off the platter: suspect proteins
  • on the platter: plant proteins, but which ones and how much?
  • on the platter: flavonoids

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Anti-Cancer News: Canned Beans and the Garden of Iodine

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Note: My apologies. This post failed to clarify all the issues surrounding iodine, thyroid hormone and cancer. Low thyroid function may protect against cancer, so what does that mean for our diets?  I’ll be publishing an update as soon as I can get some smart experts to explain all the confusing info out there.

Last week the Environmental Working Group  (EWG), a consumer health group, released its handy lists of more than 250 brands of canned foods– -those with and without bisphenol A (BPA), a compound used in plastics and cans that seems to wreak havoc with hormones

Why wasn’t Eden‘s canned beans on the green list? 
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Anti-Cancer Strategies: 3 Better Ways of Eating Berries

anti-cancer foods berries Berries are a must for your anti-cancer kitchen, but how you eat them is key. 

  • Raw or cooked?
  • Combined with what spices?
  • As desserts or snacks?

 

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