Recipe: Watercress Apple and Radish Salad

Watercress is rich in protective and anti-cancer phytochemicals including beta-carotene, lutein and isothiocyanates. The skin of red apples is rich in the anti-cancer flavonoid quercitin. And black sesame seeds are a rich source of plant lignans which normalize estrogen metabolism so important in hormonal cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. Olive oil is rich in healthy monounsaturated fats and anti-cancer phytochemical oleopurein. It is really easy to eat healthy food packed with plant chemicals that protect and promote health!!

Flu Fighting Tips | Mobilize Your Immune System

Be prepared for flu season. Protect yourself and your children from cold and flu viruses. Mobilize your immunity and improve both resistance to and response to infections this season. Here are foods, nutritional and herbal supplements and basic self care tips that can make a huge difference.

Recipe: Asian Napa Cabbage Coleslaw with Miso Dressing

This is a salad that can be served all year long. Cabbage family vegetables, including Asian Napa cabbage, are rich in anti-cancer phytochemicals called sulphoraphanes. The fresh miso provides a source of friendly healthy bacteria which are important to normal intestinal function and normal hormone metabolism. All vegetable dishes are rich in antioxidants and fiber. Including fermented foods in the diet (such as miso, fermented soybean paste) also contributes to lower rates of obesity and less body fat.

Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato & Pomegranate Salad

This delightful recipe is filled with antioxidant phytochemicals including carotenoids in bright orange sweet potatoes and salad greens, quercitin rich scallions, cancer fighting sulphoraphanes found in baby kale, cancer and anti-cancer punicalgins found in pomegranate seeds, healthy fats found in olive oil and pistachios and cilantro rich in antioxidant polyphenols, Vitamins, A, C, and K as well as potassium and manganese, a micro mineral essential to the production of cell protective SOD (superoxide dismutase) essential to protect DNA damage leading to the development of cancer. The is really is Food as Medicine!

Chemotherapy Fatigue | Relief with Ashwaganda

All patients receiving chemotherapy suffer toxic side effects. The most common complaint is chemotherapy related fatigue. A recent study found that that Stage 2 and Stage 3 breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy reported less fatigue and improved quality of life when the herbal medicine Ashwaganda was used during the course of their treatment. Here is the elegant marriage of modern science and ancient healing wisdom.

Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Seed Salad

This is a colorful and memorable Mediterranean salad filled with anti-cancer phytochemicals including sulphoraphanes from cauliflower, apigenin from parsely, punicalgins from pomegranate seeds, as well as cell protective flavonoids and menthol found in mint leaves. Additionally…

Recipe: Parsley, Lemon & Walnut Pesto

This easy to prepare spread is rich in cancer fighting foods. Parsley is rich in plant antioxidants and anti-cancer phytochemicals while walnuts are rich in healthy fats that support normal inflammation function and have shown significant impact on fighting breast cancer. Olive oil is rich in polyphenol plant antioxidants including oleocanthal and oleuropein which protect DNA and therefore inhibit cancer development and progression.