Anti-Cancer Strategies: Top 10 Foods to Decrease Inflammation

“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

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.

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?  

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: 

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? 

Anti-Cancer Recipes: Which Onions are Winning their Civil War?

Pity the poor Vidalia. She’s southern and mellow, which you might find charming in a mate, but when it comes to onions and their anti-cancer and other health benefits, the harsh northern types are far superior.

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:  

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? 

● leek soup with Italian gremolata, thickened with turnips or celeriac? 

● curried quinoa with black beans? 

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 should be incorporated into your anti-cancer diet?

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?

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: How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Tea

So you’ve read “Anti-Cancer Recipes: Have a Berry Merry Tea Party” and have chosen the finest tea leaves. How do you prepare the perfect cup?

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.

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.

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.

Anti-Cancer Recipes: How to Handle Garlic

Itching to know the best ways of preserving garlic’s anti-cancer properties?

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?

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:

Anti-Cancer Recipes: No Sugar, Lots of Spice and other Zesty Thoughts

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.  

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:

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

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.

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—

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?

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.

Anti-Cancer Recipes: Can Eggs Cause Ovarian Cancer?

Should you include eggs in your anti-cancer diet? To be perfectly honest,

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:

Anti-Cancer Strategies: Kick the 3 a Day Habit!

Make that 4-5-even 6 smaller meals a day instead.  And why is that?

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:

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:

Anti-Cancer Recipe: Lemons, Limes, Limonene

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. 

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.

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.

Salmon Says, an Anti-Cancer Investigation: What Kind is Healthiest? A Summary

This article appeared in Huffington Post Canada.

And the winner is…

Good news for consumers: Pink salmon — yes, the cheap, trash salmon you buy in cans — is tops when it comes to cleanliness, according to research by Dr. Michael Ikonomou of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans. And if you don’t like pink, then sockeye — yes, even in cans — is also a healthy choice, assuming you select the right cans.

Should you Worry about Toxins in your Tuna?

This week scientists announced they’d found small amounts of Fukushima radiation in tuna caught off California’s coast. Any reason to worry?

Read the long answer in my piece on Huff Post Canada.

The short one?

Anti-Cancer Recipe: Ricky’s Perfect Raw Veggie Juice

Ever notice how all the veggie juice recipes have you throwing in something sweet?  Apples? Beets? Loads of carrots? Well, toss that taste for sweet out of your lifestyle. On the contrary, we’re trying to ignore our addiction to sugars and carbs til it vanishes. Kaput.   

So how, then, do you make green juice tasty?

Anti-Cancer Recipe: Kale and Blueberry Salad

If you haven’t yet subscribed to Glowing Older, ® here’s a delicious anti-cancer recipe you’re likely missing:

Grapefruit and Estrogen: Pro or Anti-Cancer?

The few studies on grapefruit—and whether it has an anti-cancer benefits or promotes cancer—are definitely at odds.

It’s clear that grapefruit juice contains natural substances that can inhibit an enzyme system (called CYP3A4) responsible for metabolizing certain meds. The result: an increase of medication circulating in the blood, with potentially toxic side effects.

But can grapefruit also increase your estrogen?

Anti-Cancer Recipe: Salmon Patties To Live For

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The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. –a Buddhist thought

And serving them salmon patties for breakfast is the greatest way to kick the morning carb habit. Salmon for breakfast? It’s a Martha Stewart favorite.

Loads of good recipes are awaiting you in cyberspace.  Here’s a good one:

Salmon Says, an Anti-Cancer Investigation What Kind is Healthiest? Part 6: Canned Salmon

Summary: Last chapter of this anticancer investigation, we learned that pink salmon–yes, the trash salmon you find in cans– is the cleanest species, and that you need to eat around 2 cans a week to get enough omega 3s.

That’s 8 patties, or one and change a day–a lot of fish for many folks. 

How about canned sockeye?