Recipe: Watercress and Red Cabbage Salad with Toasted Pine Nuts

Here is a simple easy to prepare colorful salad rich in cancer fighting phytochemicals and super antioxidants.Both watercress and red cabbage are rich in isothiocyanates that improve detoxification and inflammation function. These sulphur rich plant compounds also promote healthy detoxification and metabolism of estrogen and estrogen excretion leading to improved risk profiles for hormonal cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Recipe: Grated Carrot Apple Salad with Cranberries

A crunchy colorful alternative to cole slaw and a great way to eat more salad. This colorful easy to prepare fiber rich mix is filled with cell protective cancer fighting antioxidants and bioflavonoids including quercitin, carotenoids, epicatechins, potassium and Vitamin C.

Recipe: Oven Roasted Asparagus

Asparagus is one of nature’s Super Foods. It is one of the few foods rich in glutathione which is nature’s super antioxidant providing a source of powerful protection for our cells and our DNA against oxidative damage by free radical electrons. Asparagus also supports normal anti-inflammatory function, crucial to cancer prevention.

Book Review | The Longevity Kitchen

Rebecca Katz and Matt Edelson have crafted a masterpiece: The Longevity Kitchen: Satisfying, Big-Flavor Recipes Featuring the Top 16 Age-Busting Power Foods. This is more than a cookbook, this is a guide for a journey, a grand adventure of taste and transformation that not only stirs the senses but teaches you how to eat in a way that reduces your risk of cancer, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.

Recipe: Spicy Moroccan Chermoula Sauce

Chermoula is a distinctive Moroccan marinade made of garlic and Mediterranean spices. Chermoula is rich in protective anticancer and heart healthy phytochemicals and sulphur from garlic which not only supports detoxification, but also promotes the growth of healthy friendly bacteria in the intestines, essential to normal immunity, hormone clearance and healthy cholesterol levels.

Recipe: Poached Wild Salmon with Tomatoes and Scallions

This is a simple recipe providing many heart healthy and anti-cancer nutrients including omega 3 fatty acids from wild caught salmon, healthy monounsaturated fats and the plant phenol oleuropein from olive oil along with antioxidant phytochemical flavonoids including lyocpene from tomatoes and quercitin from green onions. The olive oil, tomatoes and onions also provide carotene, vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, potassium and organic sulfur compounds.

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: 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: Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Seed Salad

This is a colorful and memorable Mediterranean salad filled with anti-cancer phytochemicals including sulphoraphanes from cauliflower, apigenin from parsely, punicalgins from pomegranate seeds, as well as cell protective flavonoids and menthol found in mint leaves. Additionally…