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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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Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts may be the bane of some children’s dining experience, but like all Brussels Sprout Pasta or...

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Barley

Back-to-Basics Barley By Fiona Breslin Barley, perhaps best known as an essential ingredient for making beer, actually plays a wide variety of culinary roles. It’s a cereal grain similar to...

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How To Reduce Your Cancer Risk

According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), certain lifestyle factors can adversely affect cancer risk for many of the most common cancers that affect men, including...

Healthy Habits

All About Parmesan Cheese

When many of us think of Parmesan cheese we think of the powdery grated cheese we see in pizza parlors and pasta joints, or in shaker boxes on...

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Cucumbers

Cucumbers are relatives of melons. They are grown all over the world and are used for more than pickling, they are used in salads and the harder varieties...

Healthy Habits

Eat to Beat the Summer Heat With Easy No-Cook Strategies!

Here at CFYL we’re all about getting into the kitchen and whipping up easy meals but sometimes in the summer it’s just too darn hot to cook! Unfortunately...

Healthy Holidays

Healthy Fourth of July: Cookout Tips for Cancer Patients

July Fourth; Red, White, Blue & Barbecue What better way to celebrate July 4th than with a BBQ? In other words, firing up the grill and gathering together with...

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National Cancer Control Month & National Minority Health Month

Time and time again, amidst fad diets and diets that promise to “cure” cancer, we at Cook for Your Life remain true to the idea that the first...

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Canned Tomatoes

Tomatoes are rich in the cancer-fighting phytonutrient lycopene, which gives tomatoes their vibrant, red color. Lycopene’s antioxidant properties have been studied for their potential anticancer properties, particularly in...

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Why Cook?

We wax lyrical about home cooking around here, but we understand that there can be many barriers to prevent someone from cooking; from lack of lack of cooking...

Food Myths

Alcohol & Cancer

According to the total abstinence for cancer prevention. If you are undergoing cancer treatment and wish to drink, you should speak with your medical team. Drinking alcohol during cancer treatment...

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Walnuts

Walnuts are part of the tree nut family, which includes Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, pine nuts, and pistachios. All these tasty tree nuts provide phytochemicals and healthy...