Attention milk-lovers: If you have had breast cancer, you may be better off steering clear of dairy fat.
The only thing that has surprised me about the latest study on the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet is the media frenzy surrounding it.
“Mediterranean Diet: The New Gold Standard?” asked Forbes.com, predicting that the study “will undoubtedly have a major effect in the field of nutrition and will influence lots of people to adopt some form of a Mediterranean diet.” Read More
Today I want to share with you my thoughts about food and love. I want to encourage you to associate food with love, and to seek not just physical nourishment but also emotional nurturance from your meals. Even more boldly, I exhort you to make love a key ingredient in your diet — not just on February 14 but also on the other 364 days of the year!
While most of us are perfectly comfortable talking about life-threatening illnesses like heart disease and AIDS, cancer remains shrouded in myth and mystery. Many people refer to it as “The Big C” or “The C-Word,” as if fearing that merely pronouncing the word “cancer” might cause them to develop the dreaded disease.
Shocking but true: according a poll published this week, only 7% of Americans understand that being obese increases a person’s cancer risk.
After all that year-end feasting, I usually crave hearty and simple vegetarian fare in early January. I may not be the only one, as many cultures around the world welcome the New Year with legumes and vegetables. These foods not only offer a cleansing start to the new calendar, but are also loaded with symbolism around wealth and health – and who wouldn’t want a bit of that in 2013!
At a time when retailers in want us to worry about holiday gifts, it occurs to me that everyone I know has everything they need – except, perhaps, for health and happiness. So this year, why not give gifts that may – at least to some extent – help your loved ones achieve these blessed states?
Vilified for the past four decades as “artery-clogging”, fattening and inflammatory, fat has become a pariah on our plates. But this view is steadily shifting.
Regular readers of this blog won’t be surprised to learn that diets high in sugar and refined starches increase the risk of disease recurrence and death in people who have been treated for colorectal cancer.
I am a nutrition coach and health writer with a keen interest in cancer prevention. Let me show you how a traditional Mediterranean diet, joyful physical activity, stress management and restorative sleep can support your health and well-being. Click for more
