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Christmas is here! It’s time to relax, enjoy and have a good time with friends and family. We’ll probably gain 5 to 10 pounds for the next 2 weeks. What with Grandma and Mom cooking! Add all that drinking to the equation. We won’t have an empty stomach for a long time. Then, we’ll realize we’ve just developed a huge abdomen also commonly known as beer belly. Were those bottles of beer responsible? Our daily 30 minutes exercise can fix this. more…
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Winter brings a lot of fresh fruits to our table. Breakfast is an important part of our daily diet routine. Let’s start kick our day by eating a citrus fruit with our morning coffee. Some of us find it difficult to consume our 5 to 10 servings of veggies and fruits. It would be much easier when we distribute them into our 3 meals – breakfast, dinner and supper. So let’s start by eating citrus fruits at breakfast. more…
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Every season brings fresh flavorful food to add to our daily meals. In the Western hemisphere, luscious pomegranates are in season from September to February or about the start of winter. We can use this potent anti-cancer fruit for the next months. We’ll just freeze the ruby red arils and use them later. more…
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Most of us are looking for a hero to save us! There’s that literature on a comic hero who can fight numerous villains. There’s that big conference called Comic-con. We dress up as heroes and we feel like one. Superman, spider man, Robin Hood, Harry Potter and you name it. Reality, however, bursts those images of a super hero. No one is charged with super powers to end cancer suffering on one quick sweep of the magic wand!
When we’re diagnosed with cancer, our oncologist can be our hero. Their knowledge and skills may save us. On the other hand, we meet people who’ve learned a lot from their personal experiences. Then, they share the lessons they’ve learned. Here’s one woman who doesn’t consider herself one. more…
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In our quest to overcome cancer, we seek food sources that we think can help. We sometimes think that just popping a pill will get us over it.
But fighting cancer – a complex and perplexing disease – isn’t that simple! The treatment and its dreadful side-effects; pain and that miserable feeling; and the continuing fight are enough to make us give up. Truly, we need loads of courage and help!
Most of us have heard about psyllium. Psyllium – as commercially known- are actually the seed husks of a plant scientifically named Plantago ovate. This plant is native to Asia and grows in the Southwest USA. more…
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Craving a sugary soda or chocolate chip cookies? You can’t argue that sweet and fatty snacks are very tempting when we are tired and stressed! There’s nothing wrong with the occasional sweet treat especially with Halloween just ended. We still have those bowls of candies, chocolates, cookies and sweet treats. But when occasional becomes every day then that’s the time we open a door for cancer to sneak in. more…
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There’d been many years of research, lots of money invested and still no cure! There’d been a lot of talk about new drugs only to find out that it isn’t as good as it promised. There’s something in the new drug that is inefficient.
Why is it so difficult to treat cancer? That is the crucial question. In response, cancer researchers of the planet have desperately brought in new means to fight cancer.
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Clearly, we need all the help we can get to fight cancer. To be successful, we need to detect cancer at the earliest stage. Now, here comes a welcome but unusual help from our four legged friend. Our dog may have an efficient and effective tool that we don’t have – his nose! Really! Makes us laugh out loud by now!
For 30 years, cancer research studies have known that cancer cells exude tiny amounts of alkanes and benzene derivatives. These by-products of cancer cells aren’t produced by healthy tissues. What’s unfortunate is there isn’t any machine that can detect these chemicals at so low level. It’s really quite difficult to verify the possibility. more…
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Celebrations are happy and memorable parts of our lives. Special foods bring much pleasure during celebrations – a wedding, a christening, Christmas, a send-off party or a promotion. There is one perfect food that comes to my mind during these times – grapes!
Grape vines had been cultivated since the dawn of time. It was believed to be a native of northwest Asia. Now, grapes are grown throughout Europe and North America. They were very popular in the Roman Empire. The Romans even had a god of wine named Bacchus. more…
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How do we discover a new cancer drug? For most of us it’s a puzzle! Scientists tell us that finding the right cancer drug is a highly challenging endeavor. After 40 years of the declaration on the war against cancer, discovering new cancer drugs are still as laborious as ever.
Why is it so difficult? What are the responsible factors? The discovery of a new cancer drug can last as much as 14 backbreaking years. Understandably, the price tag reaches to almost a billion USD. more…