Meat, Dairy, Eggs, and Cancer: Quality over Quantity

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Author’s Note: Some of this article contains excerpted passages from within my new book, which should be released in the near future. Some of the topics were kept brief as they will be explored more deeply in the book. Meat,…
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Artificial Sweeteners – This is Your Brain on Drugs

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Back in the 80’s, I spent my days at school, playing in the yard and woods, fighting with my brother over baseball cards, and watching Thundercats and GI Joe. While doing the latter, every once in a while, the famous…
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Is Your Office Giving You Cancer? Then Fight It

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  Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage” -The Smashing Pumpkins, 1995   I read a recent study from my office – a windowless room in the basement of a hospital in Pittsburgh. In…
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The Ketogenic Diet and Cancer: The Myths and Where We Stand in 2018

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I wrote my first blog post on the ketogenic diet and cancer just over five years ago: A Ketogenic Diet for Cancer followed by another article four years ago, The Ketogenic Diet and Cancer: Where We Stand. I have been meaning to…
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Cured Meat and Cancer: Can We Eat It and Still Preserve Our Health?

Flies were swarming throughout the shop as temperatures raced into the upper nineties. Forty-pound wheels of cheese sat behind the glass and under the counter, extracting whatever cool air they could from the refrigerated enclosure. We ordered a half pound…
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Got Cancer? Keep Moving: Cancer and Exercise

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A cancer diagnosis can be emotionally crippling, and the treatment that follows can be even more crippling, both physically and emotionally. Along these lines, cancer patients are often told to hold off on activity during and after treatment so they…
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Free Radicals, Cancer, and Oxidation: The Rusting of our Body

Growing up in Pittsburgh, I am no stranger to steel. In a city strewn with steel bridges and steel mills, we are no strangers to rust (especially with the Steelers in the past several years). Driving across the Roberto Clemente…
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My Anti-Cancer Thanksgiving

Anti-Cancer Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is that time of the year where we pause to be thankful – thankful for our friends, thankful for our family and, hopefully, thankful for our health. But it is also the beginning of a time of the year…
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Making Soppressata and the Importance of Cultural Foods – Episode 6

In this episode, I discuss my family’s recipe for making soppressata. Processed meats, including cured meats, have taken a beating as of lately due to some suspect population studies. Are hot dogs and hamburgers on buns the same as cured…
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The Bitter Benefits of Anticancer Vegetables, Stressful Eating and Chemical Warfare – Part 2

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In the last article, we discussed some of the major ways in which cruciferous vegetables and garlic can work as anticancer vegetables to stress our system to fight cancer. Much like the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, chemicals in…
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