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Warming Spices

Warming spices can make any dish feel more seasonal simply with the shake or grind of the spice jar. Nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and (of course) cinnamon are all...

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Top 5 Health Apps for Cancer Patients

Most of us live on our phones these days. While some may bemoan this reliance on technology, there are certainly useful elements, especially when it comes to our...

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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, study published in 2017 showed that...

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Natural Sugar Alternatives-Guest Blog Post

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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 Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, or SCCA. These elements of...

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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...