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From tips for cooking through chemotherapy to busting healthy food myths to easy, pantry-friendly meal ideas — our team of experts covers it here.

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Hans Rueffert: Probiotics

In part one of our interview series, we introduced you to Chef Hans Rueffert whose stage 3 gastric cancer led to him losing his entire stomach, changing the way he...

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Hans Rueffert: Kids in the Kitchen

Chef Hans Rueffert's stage 3 gastric cancer led to him losing his entire stomach, and changing the way he eats forever, an irony not lost on him considering his career....

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How to Eat to Aid Sleep

With our busy lives, the appropriate amount of sleep can often come last on the list. associated with an increased risk of diseases such as diabetes, not to mention...

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Cholesterol 101: What You Need To Know

Your body produces its own cholesterol but you can also get cholesterol from the foods you eat. While cholesterol is an essential part of our bodies, too much...

Kitchen Dictionary

Honey

Honey has been used as a sweetener for millennia, and before the advent of cane sugar. Because of its scarcity, honey became an expensive luxury food only eaten...

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Mushrooms

Mushrooms have long been essential and delicious ingredients in Mediterranean kitchens, but a wide variety of fungi have been used for centuries in Chinese medicine to promote well-being...

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Separating Nutrition Fact From “Nutribabble”

If you read a lot of nutritional information on social media, you may have come across the term “Nutribabble.” This phrase was coined to describe the misinformation often...

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Healthy Food Myths, Busted!

There will always be the latest-and-greatest diets and health food trends that float around the media, convincing the public that they must change how they eat and live...

Food Myths

Are Artificial Sweeteners Better Than Sugar?

Concerned about your sugar intake? You’re not alone. Many Americans are trying to major sources of non-nutritive sweeteners in the typical American diet are beverages and table-top sweeteners. In the United States, the...

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Figs

Originating in the Mediterranean region, figs were brought over by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries to the New World around 1520, eventually reaching California in the 1700s. Figs are primarily...

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How Hospitals are Using Food To Help Cancer Patients

In 2017 the Kettering Cancer Center located in Ohio opened up Boulevard Bistro, a new café that serves cancer-fighting foods that are high in nutrients, protein, and antioxidants....

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How To Manage Nausea During Cancer Treatment

What is nausea and when does it occur during cancer treatment? Of all the feared side effects from cancer and chemotherapy, nausea sits at the top of the list....