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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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The Bitter Benefits of Anticancer Vegetables, Stressful Eating and Chemical Warfare – Part 1

anticancer vegetables

The movie Full Metal Jacket opens with an infamous barrage of brutal insults and heckling by Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Comedic at times, difficult to the ears at others, his job is wholly to train the troops, prepare them…
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Forest Bathing for Your Health – More Stress Turned Good

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An easy way to gauge whether something is stressful is to measure cortisone levels. Cortisone, the “stress” hormone, is released during tense and stressful situations. My drive to work is apparently one of the most stressful parts of my day…
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Do Dogs Make You Healthier?

Do dogs make you healthier?

With good weather, I find myself walking our dog before and after work on many days. During these walks, I often contemplate how much owning a dog may be improving my health, and how it may affect others’ health. As…
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IGF-1 and Cancer – The Double-Edged Sword of Health

IGF-1

Before we dig into the article on IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor, let’s touch upon a couple issues. IGF-1 is an extremely complicated topic, paralleled by the fact that a simple Google search will inform you that it will cause…
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Stress and Cancer – It’s Bad, But Not All Bad

Several years ago, I was self-experimenting with different dietary attempts to lower my blood sugar and raise my ketones, the energy source that our liver makes when our blood sugar drops. This study had nothing to do with stress and…
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Dietary Fat and Breast Cancer – The Link That Never Existed

dietary fat and breast cancer

After the fallout of the lipid hypothesis and creation of the Food Pyramid and Standard American Diet (SAD), anti-fat sentiment picked up speed and began spreading virally throughout the medical field. Dietary fat was reluctantly, but quickly, gaining a reputation…
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Eat Less, Exercise More and Bad Advice for Cancer Patients

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More studies continue to surface showing that cancer patients have a lower risk of their disease coming back if they remain metabolically healthy – i.e. keep off the excess fat, keep blood sugar levels normal, and keep muscles adequately stimulated.1 As a…
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Muscles Fight Cancer – The Science Behind Outmuscling Cancer

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Several years back a scientific article revealed that those of us with high “muscular strength” have a lower risk of becoming a victim to cancer – a 40% lower risk to be exact.1 After assessment of almost 9,000 men aged…
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Diet Studies and Cancer – Dealing with the Latest and Greatest Study on the News

diet studies and cancer

We  have all fallen victim to it. The latest and greatest epidemiologic study reveals that coffee prevents cancer only to be replaced by a similar study days later showing that coffee causes cancer. When it supports our coffee habit, we…
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