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Valentines’ day is here! It’s that time of year we sweetly celebrate love and offer our loved ones affection with a dozen red roses plus chocolates. We may as well make it great and fun. So let’s give them a lot of chocolates but make it dark. That way, we’re both having fun and fighting cancer.

Properties of Dark Chocolate

Dark chocolate containing 70 percent or more cacao is the closest thing to a cacao bean. It tastes so yummy and a much better indulgence for those sweet toothed like most of us! Yummy! more…

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If our food fix are veggies and fruits to battle cancer, looking for creative recipes isn’t difficult to find. As mentioned in an earlier blog, the book, “Zest for Life” is a good book to start with. The gems from this book are the recipes written by an expert on nutrition, a lady with a degree in nutrition. Her brush with cancer inspired her to write this book coupled with her conviction that our food choices influence our chances at survival. She evolved into a passionate advocate in enlightening people that we can prevent this scourge through our lifestyles and especially with what we eat. more…

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36 years isn’t old. Being Brad Pitt partner is every girl’s dream! Six kids bring delight and inspiration! Being pregnant feels utterly wonderful! It looks like Angelina Jolie lives a very full and blissfully happy life. Now, add the possibility of cancer to that fairy tale kind of life and you’ll get an explosive situation. more…

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Cancer can strike anyone – the young or the old, the celebrity or the common man, the rich or the poor. Most people need to share their experiences to be able to cope as a patient, family or friend.

The Movie

I saw a movie that does just that on DVD. The title of the movie is 50/50. The title was based on the doctor’s verdict of survival of the characters. This means the 50 percent chance of survival and the 50 percent of death. more…

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The festive season has just gone by. For the New Year, we made a few resolutions and this time, we intend to keep them. (really?)

Good healthy eating habits are fun! Preparing good nutritious food should be enjoyable and most of all rewarding.

Cancer Research

We’ve known broccoli. It’s a functional food that has the compound sulforaphane, a phytochemical that inhibits the inflammation of cancer. Cancer research has shown that the inactive compound in the broccoli is transformed at the lower gut by bacteria into the active phytochemical. Once it is activated the phytochemical is easily absorbed into the body. This active sulforaphane is a potent inhibitor of cancer inflammation. 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!

A High Fiber Food

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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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.

Know thy Enemy

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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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We don’t want any cancer messing with our lives. But one person out of two gets cancer. That’s a fifty-fifty chance! It’s funny how we’re sold on just about anything to avoid that beast. We want a cheap and easy way to increase our chances against this disease. Probably, this is the reason why supplements and other alternative therapies flourish in the web. They claim to cure or prevent this monster. One is lycopene. more…

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Cancer patient? If you are, fatigue is a familiar feeling. This is the most common side effect of cancer and cancer treatment. 90% of cancer patients who are undergoing standard cancer regimen i.e. chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy and surgery experience this unique kind of fatigue.

What is Cancer Fatigue

Fatigue as a result of cancer and cancer treatment is different from the tiredness we feel after too much physical activity or after a day’s work. This fatigue develops slowly over time and is related to cancer growth.

It’s like we have zero energy. It looks like cancer has sapped every ounce of energy from our being. We struggle to accomplish our normal everyday activities. It takes a gargantuan effort to perform fun things we’re used to doing. We become sloppy with our appearance and relegate it at the back of our lives. We feel irritable and we’ve lost our sexual desire. We’d just want to sleep more than usual. But that constant tiredness hounds us even after a good night’s rest. more…