From tips for cooking through chemotherapy to busting healthy food myths to easy, pantry-friendly meal ideas — our team of experts covers it here.
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Food Sources Of Probiotics
Probiotics are healthy bacteria found in foods that help increase the diversity in bacteria species within the gut. Probiotic bacteria can be found in fermented foods.
Foods containing probiotics...
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Pine Nuts
Pine nuts have been a culinary favorite since the Stone Age, and show up in everything from stir-fries, cookies, and sauces. If you've ever bought pine nuts, then...
Healthy Habits
Wondrous Winter Squash
From blue to orange, smooth to bumpy and popular to obscure, diverse winter squash all provide cancer-fighting compounds and an earthy-sweet taste that makes the oncoming cold weather...
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Quinoa: Health Benefits & Recipe Tips
Great Grain, Funny Name
By Fiona Breslin
Quick-cooking quinoa (say KEEN-wah) is far easier to love than to pronounce. The grain-like crop, native to the Andes Mountains of South America,...
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Why Brassicas?
Remember being told to ‘eat your vegetables’ while you were growing up? This not so gentle suggestion to eat Brussels sprouts, broccoli, or cabbage was far from welcome...
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Eating Strategies for The Single Survivor
Finding the motivation to cook meals for one can be a challenge. Most recipes yield 4-6 servings, so doing the math to reduce the servings down to 1-2...
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Taking Stock of the Bone Broth Trend
Bone broth has grown in popularity in the last number of years, and the trend shows no sign of abating- in fact, newspaper articles earlier this year reported...
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Natural Sugar Alternatives-Guest Blog Post
This blog was submitted to us by our friends at GetRealGetRaw, an organization that promotes the healing power of raw food by providing healthy food and nutrition education...
Announcements
Big News at Cook for Your Life!
I am very proud to announce that in July 2019 the Cook for Your Life website became part of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
This is an exciting yet...
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Have a Spooktacularly Healthy Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner, and already many kids around the country are preparing their costumes for the annual tradition of trick-or-treating. Whether heading out with kids...
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All about Tofu
Tofu or bean curd has been around for a long, long time, over 2000 years in fact. It's said that a Chinese Han dynasty cook accidentally curdled some...
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Cranberry Beans
Late summer and autumn bring us the beautiful cranberry bean, so named for the deep-red speckles that adorn its white or cream-colored pod. If you don’t mind doing...
