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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Yes, It’s Possible to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth & Be Healthy
What’s life without a little fun? When trying to eat healthfully, it can seem like so many tasty foods are off-limits, which is disheartening. Being too strict on...
Global Ingredients
Congee, the Ultimate Bowl of Comfort
Many Asian countries have variations of rice porridge — there’s okayu in Japan, juk in Korea, jok in Thailand, and lugao from the Philippines. In China, this staple dish is called congee, and it is standard fare...
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What Can I Eat on a Bland Diet?
My doctor told me to go on a bland diet after surgery. What can I actually eat?
When prescribed a bland diet, people often feel doomed to culinary purgatory. ...
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Bananas: Health Benefits & Recipe Tips
Americans love bananas, eating as many bananas as apples and oranges combined or roughly 28 pounds of bananas each year. Bananas are also an important -- and often...
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Turnips
Turnips, a member of the brassica family of vegetables, have enjoyed their fair share of fame in the anticancer spotlight. Like all members of this cruciferous brassica family...
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Miso: Health Benefits & Recipe Tips
Miso is a salty paste that originates in Japan. It is made from soy, fermented and aged with varying amounts of added rice, barley or buckwheat among other...
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Prunes
Powerful Prunes
By Alyssa Adler
Aside from prunes helping soften the stool, did you know that prunes contain nutrients that preserve bone health? Especially for cancer patients, it is important...
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Sardines
Packed like Sardines
By Alyssa Adler
Sardines are small fish that are packed with flavor and nutrients. Sardines are actually not a species, but rather different types of tiny fish....
Food Myths
Fruits & Vegetables: To Peel or Not To Peel?
Fruits and vegetables are known for their phytonutrients, which have outstanding health benefits such as reducing risk factors for cancer and chronic diseases. These phytonutrients are mostly found...
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Bland Diet Pantry Basics
There are many reasons a patient may need to follow a bland diet. It is typically prescribed in the initial weeks after stomach or intestinal surgery, or more...
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Avocado
Avocados may get a bad rap for being high in fat, yet most of the fats in avocados are heart-healthy monounsaturated fats like those found in olive oil...
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Celery
Historically used as a topical medicine and as a tonic to clean the bloodstream, celery is a crunchy vegetable that earns its green color and nutritional value from...
