Anti-Cancer Foods: Serve Up Some Fermentable Fiber
Just when you thought you could tell the differences among various kinds of fiber, scientists start dishing out a brand new term for our anti-cancer diets: fermentable fiber. For years, researchers...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: How to Pick Unseasonal Berries
How should you go about picking berries for your anti-cancer diet when you can’t get fresh ones from the ‘hood? Click here for 6 tips on choosing and using berries when they’re out of season. Which...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Which Crucifers are Best Raw?
If you’ve been following this anti-cancer food blog, you know all about the crucifer dilemma and the recent research solving it: Most crucifers need to be lightly cooked to inactivate compounds called...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Recipe Challenge: Let’s Make Ketchup
What’s wrong with buying ketchup for your anti-cancer diet? The problem is that most commercial brands are full of sugar– or other sweeteners that still raise your blood sugar. But ketchup is made...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Recipes: Jittery Cook’s Jicama Sticks
Still struggling to find a simple jicama recipe for your anti-cancer diet? f you read the post on fermentable fiber, you know that jicama (“he-cah-mah”–accent on “he”) is one of those vegetables...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Alert: Sprouted Chia Recalls
Have you purchased any of these for your anti-cancer kitchen? Navitas Naturals is voluntarily recalling three products in the US and in Canada containing organic sprouted chia powder due to...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Resources: A Book, a Club and an MD with an Alternative Approach
Add these to your list of anti-cancer resources: ● If you’re learning how to cook with spices, the book “Healing Spices” by M. D. Anderson researcher Dr. Bharat Aggarwal will help you create jewels in...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Diets: What’s the Deal with Dairy?
I’ve been reserving judgment on dairy products for 55 years now–since Grade 1, when my mom lied to the school authorities and told them I was allergic to milk. Truth was: it made me gag. But now that...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Why I’ve Gone Nuts for Walnuts
Put walnuts and their next of kin on your anti-cancer shopping list. And who might that be? That would be pecans–their yummy southern sisters, the other outrageous nut of the Juglandaceae clan. In...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Strategies: Does Diet Really Matter?
When it comes to anti-cancer strategies, does diet really matter? To what degree? We started the summer with a New York Times science columnist claiming that diet doesn’t matter (the premise of his...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Freeze your own Berries
With summer on its way out, it’s time to freeze some of its most nutritious anti-cancer bounty. How to do it? Remember these 3 letters: IQF– individually quick frozen. When it comes to freezing...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Are you Buying the Best Turmeric?
What kind of turmeric powder should we choose for our anti-cancer kitchens? photo of raw turmeric courtesy of Holly Botner, the Jittery Cook Most of the world’s turmeric comes from two places in India:...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Fennel Leaves
What anti-cancer benefits do fennel leaves and walnuts have in common? Myricetin, a phytonutrient, is the magic common denominator. It binds both copper and iron floating around in your blood–...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer News: AICR says Soy and Fiber Important for Breast Cancer Survivors
Dear readers: Over the coming weeks, I will attempt to get reaction from various researchers on the soy findings. Stay tuned, talk with your doctor and do what feels right for you. Nobody needs...
View ArticleAuthors retract green coffee bean diet paper touted by Dr. Oz
Originally posted on Retraction Watch:Two authors of a 2012 paper sponsored by a company that made grand claims about green coffee bean abstract’s abilities to help people lose weight have retracted...
View ArticleBreaking Anti-Cancer News: Ditch the Peanuts and Spread the Word
The first study to examine the effects of certain compounds in peanuts on the spread of cancer is about to be published–and the results show serious consequences for your anti-cancer diet, especially...
View ArticleAn Anti-Cancer Holiday Gift: Cranberries to Enrich your Poop
You don’t know what a healthy poop is until you’ve added some cranberries to your anti-cancer diet. And what’s a hearty poop got to do with cancer? Fiber, we’re now realizing, may be the most...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Awards: This Year’s Top Blog Post Stinks
Let’s jump straight to the top. The #1 most read post this year is–Anti-Cancer Recipes: Should you Cook Onions? So what’s the short answer? Eat them raw as well as cooked, but don’t cook them more than...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer News: Canned Beans and the Garden of Iodine
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...
View Article2016: What’s on and off your Anti-Cancer Platter?
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:...
View ArticlePart 2: What’s on and Off your Anti-Cancer Platter? Legumes for Long Life!
Legumes–beans, peas and lentils — are the #1 key to longevity, says Dan Buettner, the bestselling author who’s been studying the world’s Blue Zones, those pockets of the world (Mediterranean, Japan,...
View ArticlePart 3: What’s On and Off Your Anti-Cancer Platter? Flavonoids & The Mighty...
Now that you’re no longer a “Proteinaholic,” how do you go about selecting the most nutritious plants among all those shades of red, purple and green? My first vote goes to “The Mighty Italian...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer News: Fukushima Update/How Safe are North America’s Salmon?
Five years after the world’s most recent nuclear disaster, the plume of waters carrying Fukushima’s cesium has started hitting North America’s Pacific northwest. How safe are our fish? Thanks to a...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Recipes: Holiday Guacamole with Emeralds and Rubies
Here’s a sparkling twist on guacamole to share with friends this holiday season and add to your growing repertoire of anti-cancer recipes. The emeralds include avocado chunks and cilantro; the rubies,...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Strategies: 3 Better Ways of Eating 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? Answer #1: Raw, of course, but you probably knew...
View ArticleFukushima Contamination Detected at Shoreline in British Columbia
Originally posted on Home: Satellite measurements of ocean temperature (illustrated by color) and the direction of currents (white arrows) help show where radionuclides from Fukushima are transported....
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Foods: Watercress, Indoles and Why You AhR What You Eat
Note to cooks: When you cook watercress, you activate nitriles, which can negate the cancer-fighting isothiocyanates (a mouthful, I know–explained below.) Like radishes, watercress is thus best...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer News: The New York Times on Feeding Cancer
This week’s New York Times magazine features a story on a theme familiar to all of you readers of this anti-cancer blog : the metabolic approach to starving, or feeding, disease. It singles out insulin...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Strategies: Do Your Buttons
How can such a common mushroom harbor so many anti-cancer qualities? Credit its lectins, for starters– Agaricus bisporus lectin, or ABL for short, named for the button species, Agaricus bisporus,...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Diets: Why I’m Ditching Brazil Nuts
As if Brazil didn’t have enough to worry about, now comes a new study that exposes the shady side of selenium. The selenium in Brazil nuts, it turns out, is not the kind associated with anti-cancer...
View ArticleAnti-Diabetes is Anti-Cancer: And Butter is not Back
Today, on World Diabetes Day, it’s time to set the record straight: The cause of Type 2 diabetes and its precursor, insulin resistance, is saturated fats. They muck up your cells and the ability of...
View ArticleRing Around the Belly: 5 Keys to Ringing out the Old
Is it my imagination or has Pillsbury’s Dough Boy shed a bit of belly fat? Wonder what he’s been eating for lupper? Ring around the Belly, the scourge of us women post menopause, is an alarm signal...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Strategies: How to Stock Your Plantastic Kitchen
Today, on World Cancer Day, go out and buy some cancer-fighting plants. Here are some musts for your anti-cancer kitchen: Top Common Foods for Cancer-Fighting Phytonutrients Quercetin and kaempferol:...
View ArticleYour Anti-Cancer Mother’s Day Gift: Myricetin
Myricetin may not yet grace your doctor’s anti-cancer tool kit, but put it on your prescription pad. Among all the phytonutrients, it’s what I call “plantastic”– blessed with a chemical structure that...
View ArticleAnti-Cancer Strategies: Inhibit Glutamine
Cancer cells thrive on certain fuels–including glucose and glutamine, two key elements that you must inhibit in your anti-cancer diet. We’ve talked ad nauseum about glucose. But what about glutamine,...
View ArticleA Love Letter to John McCain: Seyfried and Co.’s Anti-Cancer Formula
Dear Senator, Meet the Moses of the metabolic movement, Dr. Thomas Seyfried. He’s leading a tribe of distinguished scientists who are looking at cancer with a new lens. Their anti-cancer approach...
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