Want to make healthy changes in your own life and for your family? The Cancer Project is offering a free downloadable color coded poster for you to easily pick an array of cancer-fighting produce.

“The more naturally colorful your meal is, the more likely it is to have an abundance of cancer-fighting nutrients. Pigments that give fruits and vegetables their bright colors represent a variety of protective compounds. The poster shows the cancer-fighting and immune-boosting power of different-hued foods.”

There is a new report by PCRM titled The Five Worst Packaged Lunchbox Meals that will blow your mind. In a time when childhood obesity and diseases in the U.S. are at an all time high, I find it alarming that manufacturers are not held to a stricter nutritional guideline.

The Food for Life Nutrition and Cooking Class Series was launched in 2001 to help cancer survivors take advantage of the healing power of foods. The goal of this program is to empower cancer survivors, their friends, and their family members with easy-to-implement cooking skills that turn every meal into a delicious dose of healthy nutrition.

Men with prostate cancer who follow a low-fat vegetarian diet benefit from increased quality of life and slowed PSA doubling time, according to a recent study published in Urology. PSA doubling time is the amount of time it takes for levels of prostate-specific antigen, a biological marker for prostate cancer, to increase by 100%.
The study focused on 36 men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, had undergone primary treatment for more than six months, and had continuous increases of PSA levels. The men were assigned to attend vegetarian nutrition …