(photo)How ingredients make it in a recipe? Is it taste, texture or color? Or the ability it grant us to increase our well-being. For our life time, it is the taste that pretty much rules the day. However for a civilization which has lived for thousands of years, traditional foods and their ingredients give an advantage over other civilizations. We can take advantage of that fact. more…
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Eating must be pleasant. Our food needs to be flavorful and presented as colorful and attractive as possible. This is especially true if we have to fight cancer with food and we intend to keep eating functional foods. Incorporating spices to our food brings a delightful zing to our taste buds. Besides that, some spices fight and brush aside cancer. more…
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Being a rock star doesn’t protect us from Cancer. In 2006, Sheryl Crow, the rock star, was diagnosed with breast cancer at 44 years old. Instead of crying over spilled milk she was determined to get to the bottom of this. Cancer enlightened her on her perception of food.
As a rock star, she’d spend most of her days traveling and gobble road food- mostly meat and mashed potatoes. Being lean, eating well wasn’t a concern. Then cancer struck and drastically changed her unhealthy diet and eating habits. Cancer glaringly emphasizes our unhealthy lifestyles. It serves as a wake up call – albeit a rude one! more…