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 Dietary Strategies: The Basics, Part 2

Epigallocatechin gallates (EGCGs) from green tea were one of the first dietary components identified as protective against angiogenesis, the process by which cancer cells develop blood vessels in order to grow and spread. Today researchers have found many more compounds that affect angiogenesis.

Exactly how do foods impact our ability to fight cancer? We started talking about that in Part I of The Basics. I owe you a better explanation.   

Anti-Cancer Dietary Strategies: The Basics, Part 1

We all have cancer cells dormant inside our bodies; the key is to keep them from growing and spreading.

Picture your lawn in the springtime—at the beginning, a few precocious dandelions, then an army of weeds invades your space. We slay them with herbicides, we patiently dig out their roots, yet they continue to multiply.  

But what if we changed the soil they grow in? What if we made that soil inhospitable to uncontrolled growth and spread?

Anti-Cancer Strategies: Meet the Experts

Who are among the world’s top experts on nutrition and cancer?

With all the blather out there in the information universe, we all know that you’re only as good as your sources. As a journalist, I’ll tap into the world’s foremost experts on cancer and nutrition, digest their thoughts and then deliver their advice atop platters of inviting recipes. I’ll tell you where the experts differ in opinion—some say no alcohol; others tout red wine, for example (Don’t believe them)– and declare my philosophical bias at the outset: If you’re fighting cancer, follow the opinion that’s the least risky.

Anti-Cancer Foods: Eat your Avastin?

Avastin (also known as bevacizumab) is one of the most promising drugs for treating cancer. It works by binding to and neutralizing a protein that promotes angiogenesis, the process by which cancer cells create blood vessels and spread throughout the body.  But Avastin is expensive, hard to get and still in the trial stages for many types of cancer.

The good news is:  That protein our cells produce—VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor – can also be blocked by natural agents in common plants.