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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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Ask Esther: BPAs & Food Storage

Can I use plastic containers to store food? I heard it is toxic. One of the components of some plastic containers, as well as the lining of some cans,...

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Salmon

It might not be the splashiest of species in the seafood world, but salmon is a genuine superfood. It is one of the best food sources of omega-3 fatty...

Healthy Holidays

Gift Ideas for a Friend With Cancer

When a friend or loved one has cancer during the holidays it can be tough to know what to give them as a gift. It’s hard to find...

Food Myths

Which sugar is best?

Jean LaMantia, is a cancer survivor, registered dietitian and author of The Essential Cancer Treatment Nutrition Guide and Cookbook. Jean speaks with cancer survivors every day who have cleaned up...

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Hans Rueffert: Probiotics

In part one of our interview series, we introduced you to Chef Hans Rueffert whose stage 3 gastric cancer led to him losing his entire stomach, changing the way he...

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Hans Rueffert: Kids in the Kitchen

Chef Hans Rueffert's stage 3 gastric cancer led to him losing his entire stomach, and changing the way he eats forever, an irony not lost on him considering his career....

Healthy Holidays

Healthy Tips for Surviving This Holiday Season

For many of us, the holiday season comes with a bit of anxiety. Many holidays revolve around food, so it’s typically the time of year that we fall off track and find ourselves packing on a...

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How to Eat to Aid Sleep

With our busy lives, the appropriate amount of sleep can often come last on the list. associated with an increased risk of diseases such as diabetes, not to mention...

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Cholesterol 101: What You Need To Know

Your body produces its own cholesterol to help with digestion, and cholesterol can also come from the foods you eat. While cholesterol is an essential part of our bodies...

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Honey

Honey has been used as a sweetener for millennia, and before the advent of cane sugar. Because of its scarcity, honey became an expensive luxury food only eaten...

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Mushrooms

Mushrooms have long been essential and delicious ingredients in Mediterranean kitchens, but a wide variety of fungi have been used for centuries in Chinese medicine to promote well-being...

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Separating Nutrition Fact From “Nutribabble”

If you read a lot of nutritional information on social media, you may have come across the term “Nutribabble.” This phrase was coined to describe the misinformation often...