Recipe: Carrot Beet & Mint Salad

This colorful salad is packed with carotenoid super anti-oxidants and anti-cancer flavonoids apigenin and luteolin from mint which supports normal digestive function disrupted by side effects related to chemotherapy. Also included are ginger which supports normal inflammation management and olive oil which contains healthy monounsaturated fats and anti-cancer oleopurein.

Recipe: Watercress Apple and Radish Salad

Watercress is rich in protective and anti-cancer phytochemicals including beta-carotene, lutein and isothiocyanates. The skin of red apples is rich in the anti-cancer flavonoid quercitin. And black sesame seeds are a rich source of plant lignans which normalize estrogen metabolism so important in hormonal cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. Olive oil is rich in healthy monounsaturated fats and anti-cancer phytochemical oleopurein. It is really easy to eat healthy food packed with plant chemicals that protect and promote health!!

Recipe: Asian Napa Cabbage Coleslaw with Miso Dressing

This is a salad that can be served all year long. Cabbage family vegetables, including Asian Napa cabbage, are rich in anti-cancer phytochemicals called sulphoraphanes. The fresh miso provides a source of friendly healthy bacteria which are important to normal intestinal function and normal hormone metabolism. All vegetable dishes are rich in antioxidants and fiber. Including fermented foods in the diet (such as miso, fermented soybean paste) also contributes to lower rates of obesity and less body fat.

Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato & Pomegranate Salad

This delightful recipe is filled with antioxidant phytochemicals including carotenoids in bright orange sweet potatoes and salad greens, quercitin rich scallions, cancer fighting sulphoraphanes found in baby kale, cancer and anti-cancer punicalgins found in pomegranate seeds, healthy fats found in olive oil and pistachios and cilantro rich in antioxidant polyphenols, Vitamins, A, C, and K as well as potassium and manganese, a micro mineral essential to the production of cell protective SOD (superoxide dismutase) essential to protect DNA damage leading to the development of cancer. The is really is Food as Medicine!

Recipe: Pam’s Homemade Hummus

Hummus is a traditional dish from the  super healthy anti-cancer  Mediterranean Diet packed with vegetarian/vegan  protein from chickpeas, healthy fats from sesame tahini and olive oil and antioxidant herbs cumin, cayenne, parsley and coriander. 2…

Recipe: Sweet Potato Cinnamon Orange Cups

Here is a wonderfully simple recipe filled with deep orange anti-cancer, super antioxidant carotenoids Cinnamon, a spice found in most kitchens, has been shown to enhance regulation of  blood sugar and promote anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory activity…

Recipe: Asparagus with Shitake Mushrooms

Asparagus is paired with Shitake Mushrooms yielding a dish with two potent cancer fighting immune modulating super foods. The herbs and spices which give this dish its flavor include shallots, garlic, olive oil and in the variation, ginger and cayenne, all of which demonstrate anti-cancer activity.