Laurel on Health Food

ChefMD™ writes that a study from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School shows that pre-menopausal women who consume high amounts of vitamin D and calcium may reduce their risk of breast cancer by 40%. ChefMD™ says the best food sources of vitamin D are dairy products and oily fish such as [...]

Cooking Light Magazine chose napa cabbage as their choice ingredient for June.  While a cup of cabbage has some calcium, fiber, and vitamin C, the vegetable also has compounds called indoles.  Studies are showing that this compound, also found in other cabbages and cruciferous vegetables, may prevent some cancers. Napa cabbage can also be called [...]

Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN from Stonyfield.com reports that healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices can prevent or slow tumor growth in the early stages of colon cancer.  She says that colon cancer is the third most common cancer (for men and women) in our country, however, “70% of colon cancer is preventable.”
Some factors that reduce [...]