If you are looking for a healthful, calorie and nutrient dense smoothie recipe to help you maintain or gain weight during or after cancer treatment, try this one by IOE's anticancer nutritionist, Conner Middelmann-Whitney. This is the second in ... [Read More]
Recipes
In this section, we will introduce you to some delicious and easy to prepare anti-cancer recipes, as well as recipes developed to help support you through and after cancer treatment.
Healthy Cookouts In 12 Easy Steps
I love a good cookout – after all, al fresco meals are the quintessence of Mediterranean summer dining. Nonetheless, I get a little nervous about the health implications of some of the foods eaten at summer picnics and barbecues. So at the risk of ... [Read More]
Dr Lawenda’s Favorite Smoothie For Maintaining Or Gaining Weight
Are you looking for a delicious, healthful, calorie dense smoothie? I found it. It's called the "10-Day Detox Diet Whole Protein Shake" and it comes right out of my favorite functional medicine expert's latest book, The 10-Day Detox ... [Read More]
“Healthy Indulgence” Is Not An Oxymoron: A Valentine’s Treat
I wish delicious foods weren't automatically classed as “decadent,” “sinful,” “indulgent,” a “guilty pleasure” or even (generally in the context of chocolate) as “death-by [insert killer food name here].” It’s as though a secret guild of ... [Read More]
So Tasty, So Simple, So Healthy, Sofrito
As readers of Zest for Life know, rare is the recipe of mine that doesn’t start with a chopped onion sautéed in olive oil with some minced garlic. Once the onion is translucent I’ll add tomatoes, thyme and bay leaf, cook it another 15 minutes and ... [Read More]
Anti-Cancer Recipes From The Experts
When you are first learning about the concepts of anti-cancer nutrition it can be a challenge to figure out how to shop and prepare meals for yourself. With two-thirds of cancer patients searching for nutrition advice online, where do they go to get ... [Read More]
Curried Pumpkin-Apple Soup, Tamari-Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
This warming soup makes a comforting fall meal brimming with nutrients. I usually feed it to my kids on Halloween before they go trick-or-treating, as a tiny bulwark against the imminent candy onslaught ... Pumpkin is an excellent source of ... [Read More]
Halloween Antidote: Curried Pumpkin Soup
I serve this warming soup every year at Halloween in the hope that it will – at least to some extent – act as an antidote to all the sugar my children drag into the house.All varieties of winter squash – Hokkaido (my favorite as it can be eaten with ... [Read More]
Sweet Potatoes: Not Just For Thanksgiving
After seeing my recent blog post about the hazards of rice-eating, a dispirited reader wrote to ask whether there were any safe starches left that he could eat to fuel his morning workouts. After giving up gluten-containing grains, rice had been his ... [Read More]
Celebrating Healthy Birthdays
For many people who have survived cancer, birthdays take on a whole new meaning. They’re not just an occasion to celebrate their birth, but also a chance to give thanks that they’re still alive – sometimes, against poor odds. Many mark not only ... [Read More]
You Want Multivitamins? Here, Eat This.
In my last post I boasted that I would give you a recipe which would put any multivitamin tablet to shame; here it is. This may be the most nutrient-dense, vitamin-packed, mineral-rich, cancer-protective recipe I know. First, this fish stew ... [Read More]
Crispy Sticky Black Pepper Tofu
I have a confession to make: I don’t cook with tofu. For a foodie who claims to eat everything, this is a somewhat embarrassing revelation. It’s not that I dislike its taste; in Japanese restaurants I’m perfectly happy to eat the delicate silken ... [Read More]
In Praise of Fungi
Did you know that Japanese mushroom farmers are half as likely to develop stomach cancer as their non-mushroom-growing neighbors? (1) This may be due to the fact that they regularly eat the mushrooms they cultivate and benefit from the ... [Read More]
Pears: Underrated Nutritional Superstars
This fall, instead of gravitating towards apples (I know -- they're so much easier to love: ripening more predictably in our fruit bowls, traveling better without bruising, simultaneously offering tart crunch and creamy flesh, and coming in a wide ... [Read More]
Is It Still Safe To Eat Rice?
In light of recent shocking revelations by Consumer Reports Magazine, you may be wondering whether you should still be eating rice. The independent testing organization discovered that many widely-eaten rice products – including white rice, brown ... [Read More]
Watercress and Red Cabbage Salad
Today’s recipe is from Elyn Jacobs, who has not only overcome breast cancer, but was inspired by her own healing journey to help others in theirs. Following her treatment, she gave up her high-flying Wall Street job and became a cancer coach and ... [Read More]
Ballroom Cooking, Mediterranean-Style
The IOE team – Brian Lawenda and myself – attended the Society for Integrative Oncology’s Ninth International Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, these past three days. It was a fantastic event featuring presentations by leading experts in the ... [Read More]
Magical Chicken Soup
To my mind, everything about chicken soup is magical: the sweet, brothy scent that wafts through the house as the ingredients’ aromas meld in my stock pot; its deeply comforting flavors as I slowly slurp it down; and the sustained sense of ... [Read More]
Verity’s Cottage Pie
Meet Verity, breast cancer thriver extraordinaire. Through a combination of conventional and complementary treatments, exercise, spiritual practice, dietary change and gritty determination, she is in remission from stage IV – also known as ... [Read More]
Healthy Chocolate-Hazelnut Paste
A reader expressed surprise that I had included what she thought was commercial chocolate-hazelnut paste in my avocado-chocolate pudding; please let me take this opportunity to clear up the misunderstanding with today’s recipe for a healthy ... [Read More]
Warming Ginger and Lemon Infusion
Winter has come very suddenly to my part of the world (it snowed this morning!) and while I wait for my central heating to crank into gear after the summer break, I have been brewing my own "liquid central heating" to keep me warm. Ginger is ... [Read More]
Avocado Chocolate Nutella-Like Pudding
If you think you’ve misread the title of this dish – “Avocados and chocolate? Surely not!” – please bear with us; it’s not what it seems. Granted, it does sound like a bold combination; but when you think about it, avocadoes are fruits, and they ... [Read More]
Broccoli and Carrot Fritters
When you type “broccoli” and “cancer” into the PubMed search field, you get 679 results, testament to broccoli’s cancer-busting antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxifying properties. Research links it to a decreased risk of prostate cancer, ... [Read More]
Eggplant Pizzas
Grilled eggplant slices act as the “pizza crust” onto which you can pile any number of vegetables, nuts, fish, seeds, olives, capers, cheeses, etc. The version below contains seven vegetables (including those used to make the sauce)! As an added ... [Read More]
Fruity Breakfast Lentils
The second dish in our "A Recipe A Day To Keep Cancer Away" initiative that will be running through the whole month of October. This vegan lentil stew -- inspired by the classic Indian dish "dal" -- makes a surprisingly satisfying breakfast: It’s ... [Read More]
A Recipe a Day to Keep Cancer Away
By Conner Middelmann-Whitney As our contribution to Breast Cancer Awareness Month we will publish an anti-cancer recipe here every day throughout the month of October. Echoing the Breast Cancer Fund’s “Prevention is Power” ... [Read More]
Very Berry Summer Pudding
It’s hard to imagine a more concentrated – or delicious – way of enjoying our little red, blue and purple friends, the berries and cherries. This is also a great way to get children to eat berries, which, on their own, they often find too tart. While ... [Read More]
Two Smoothies: Green Smoothie and Berry Booster Smoothie
Smoothies are a great way to increase your vegetable and fruit intake when you don’t get around to munching your way through the recommended nine to 13 daily servings. Whole vegetables and fruits remain the best choice because they contain healthy ... [Read More]
Gazpacho with Avocado Relish
This refreshing soup from Spain’s sun-scorched south is made from raw summer vegetables and olive oil, and brims with cancer-protective plant compounds. It requires a little prep time, but since none of it demands much precision – just a bit of ... [Read More]
Garlic-Crusted Baked Cod
This recipe is inspired by the Spanish-Catalan dish bacalao a la muselina de ajo, though here we replace the traditional salt cod with fresh fish (any firm-fleshed white fish works here). You can serve the fish on a light tomato sauce (as ... [Read More]