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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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Healthy Holidays: Thanksgiving

Besides connecting with friends and family, and giving thanks for all our bounty, food is a huge part of Thanksgiving. While it’s important to celebrate and enjoy all...

Global Ingredients

One Super Soup

Garlic is an iconic, healthful essential in the Mediterranean diet, and sopa de ajo, or garlic soup, is pungent, warming and simple. If you happened to have had...

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Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi may not be one of the things you dash to the grocery for — heck, you may have never heard of this bulbous veg – but it’s...

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Cannellini Beans

Mild-flavored and creamy, cannellini beans are also known as white Italian kidney beans. Cannellini beans are an excellent source of fiber, protein, complex carbohydrates, plus research has found...

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Are You Consuming Too Much Salt?

While the human body, having emerged from the primordial oceans eons ago, requires salt for good health, the average American diet contains far more salt than is generally...

Food Myths

Processed Meat & Cancer Risk- What’s Safe to Eat?

Processed meat has become a clear focus when it comes to cancer prevention and diet, particularly when it comes to colorectal cancer, which is now daily increases the overall...

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Tips for Eating after Stomach Surgery

Treatment of stomach cancer can involve the removal of part or all of the stomach, which can impact the foods you eat. While in the hospital, the medical...

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Peaches

To call someone “a peach” suggests that they are all things good, bundled up in one near-perfect package. There’s good reason for that: Not only are the sunny...

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Mad About Melons

Whether it’s watermelons, cantaloupes, or honeydews, melons of many stripes not only taste good but offer numerous benefits. Watermelons contain lycopene, the Watermelon and Feta Salad — you’ll be...

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Staying Healthy When a Snack Attack Strikes

If you’re trying to eat more healthfully but your pantry is filled with salty snacks and sugary treats, it might be time to make a few easy changes...

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Do You Need To Go Gluten-Free?

While necessary for those with certain health conditions such as celiac disease, cancer patients should not have to avoid gluten. In fact, some foods containing gluten offer health...

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How to Enjoy a Low Iodine Diet- Recipes and Tips

A butterfly-shaped gland in the front of the neck that controls metabolism, the thyroid is part of the endocrine system, which makes the hormones that play a role...