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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Pumpkin
The pumpkin, along with its winter squash cousins butternut, acorn, and spaghetti, among others, is a delicious way to get a healthy helping of essential nutrients. The bright...
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Dealing With A Neutropenic Diet
During cancer treatment, you may be advised to follow a neutropenic diet if you develop neutropenia. Neutropenia is when neutrophils, a type of white blood cell in your...
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Is There Evidence to Support a Neutropenic Diet?
The neutropenic diet has been a mainstay in cancer treatment for years. Patients with neutropenia have low levels of a type of white blood cell called neutrophils, which...
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Carrots
Mildly sweet and crunchy, the ever-constant carrot has been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes. High levels of beta-carotene, metabolized by the body into vitamin A,...
Healthy Habits
Back to School: How to Pack a Healthy Lunch for Kids
Back to school time means your kids will be going off to a day of classes with their backpacks and lunch boxes in tow. Now is a great...
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Quick, Healthy Breakfast Tips
Recent studies have found that...
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Keep Moving: Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention
Physical activity is one of the lifestyle factors that can influence the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases in addition to dietary factors and smoking and alcohol...
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Summer Stone Fruits
By Alyssa Adler
Stone fruits, or large and hard middle seed. Drupes include nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots and cherries. These fruits commonly grow in warm climates, but in the...
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Safe Grilling Tips for Cancer Patients
Grilling and summer go hand in hand. There are so many delicious things we can make on the BBQ, but it’s also important to know how to grill...
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Stay Hydrated All Summer Long
Throughout summer, staying hydrated should be the number one to-do on all of our lists. But for those going through treatment, it’s especially important as chemo can cause...
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Mad About Melons
Melon Mania
By Chelsea Fisher
Whether it's watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydews -- how lucky we are that melons of many stripes show up during a long hot summer? Watermelons contain lycopene,...
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Tomatoes
Not too many centuries ago, tomatoes were thought to be poison. Thank goodness that dark age is over because we now know that tomatoes are not only juicy...
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