Earthly Eating

1. Watching your weight: Excessive weight has been linked to colon cancer and body weight directly affects the levels of many circulation hormones like insulin and even your estrogen levels which encourages cancer development. Every added inch of waist circumference increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 5 percent. So every inch you loose around your middle lowers your risk greatly.

2. Limit to what you eat: As like the above statement says, less is more when it comes to your body and food. Less of the unhealthy foods and more of the good foods and exercise. To help eat less, serve meals on a lunch or salad plate instead of a large dinner plate. When eating out try a dinner salad and an appetizer portion of an entree. Never over eat just because you paid for it, you can always take it home and eat the remainder the following day.

3. Cut the refined carbs an refined sugars: High intake of simple sugars such as fructose and sucrose increase the risk of colon cancers. So cut these out totally or cut down on them greatly. Your body needs more fiber than simple and refined sugars anyway, so load up on fiber before sugars.

4. Have a plant-based diet: A Western diet rich in produce, low-fat dairy, fish, lean chicken, and a lot of whole grains, this diet seems to prevent against some forms of cancers, which includes colorectal cancers as well. Foods lower on the food chain may be the healthier ones because of fewer synthetic hormones and herbicides and pesticides.

5. Cut back on your meat consumption as well: Red and processed meats have been linked a numerous amount of times to colorectal cancers. Consume more vegetable proteins such as legumes and omega-3 rich fish and seafood over red meats.
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Earthly Eating Recipe

Apricot Couscous
Serves: 2

Cover and let sit for 10 to 15 minutes, then uncover and fluff with a fork. In a large bowl mix the apricots, almonds, lemon juice, green onion, mint, cilantro, garlic and the lemon zest. Add the couscous, olive oil and salt to taste. Toss gently to combine and serve.

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Soy foods are derived from soybeans. Edamame (green soybeans), soy nuts, soy milk, tofu, tempeh, and miso are traditional soy foods. In recent years, soy foods have become part of the mainstream American diet and consumers can now find a variety of soy foods at local health food stores as well as the local grocery store now.

In addition to traditional soy foods, the marketplace is full of manufactured soy products including soy hot dogs, soy meat, soy cheese, soy flour, and even cereals and nutrition bars containing soy protein. These are not natural forms of soy, and therefore do not contain the same balance of nutrients. They are not considered soy foods by many health professionals as well as many soy eating patrons of the food.

Soy foods contain isoflavones, which helps to decrease the risk of breast cancer by binding with estrogen receptors, reducing your exposure to the more powerful effects of your own estrogen. However, soy appears to offer the greatest protection to women who ate it regularly before their puberty cycle begins.

If you decide to add more soy to your diet, it’s best to stick with whole soy foods such as tofu, soy milk, and edamame rather than the processed foods out of the market today that are made with soy isolate or isolated soy protein. Skip the soy supplements, which contain high, and possibly dangerous, amounts of isoflavones.

More things to keep in mind about soy. It contains phytoestrogens, as mentioned above. These are natural plant chemicals that have weak estrogen like effects on the body. There are two main groups of phytoestrogens, called isoflavones and lignans. The phytoestrogens in soy are isoflavones.

Eating phytoestrogens is supposed to help reduce hot flashes mainly during menopause. In healthy women, eating phytoestrogens may lower your natural production of estrogen. High estrogen levels have been linked to development of breast cancer, so this may be a good thing to consume soy to help prevent this from happening. Phytoestrogens may have a similar effect on the body as natural estrogen. It may not make any difference to breast cancer risk. Studies are continuing in this, but one thing is for sure, soy is a healthy addition to a woman, man and even children’s diet. So consider adding in with your next meal.
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Earthly Eating Recipe

Jamaican Mint Burgers
Serves: 4 to 6

Serve on a toasted sesame bun topped with a pineapple ring dowsed with some of the remaining basting sauce and your own burger toppings.

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• Have a home monitor for blood pressure. Once you have been diagnosed as borderline or high, buy a home monitor and think of it in the same way you think of a bathroom scale.

• Dietary supplemenst are on of the easiest and most effective non drug appraoches. Try tomato extract to lower your blood pressure.

• Balance your minerals with the Mediterranean diet. It includes a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables. The secret weapon to this is the abundance of potassium founf in these fruits and vegetables. So, if you’re not following the Mediterranean diet or consuming 8-9 servings a day to obtain the sodium blunting effect, use a salt substitute when preparing foods like pasta, etc. to increase the potassium levels in your diet.

• Alcohol in moderation. Consuming one or two alcohol beverages daily and the good news is that it’s scientifically backed up.

• Reduce your stress with mini-vacations. Take three two-minute mini vacations daily where you spend those two minutes taking slow deep breaths you can lower your blood pressure by 10 points.

• Wrap up your day with hot cocoa! Everyone loves cocoa, and if you don’t then read this and you may. The active cocoa compounds which complement this relaxing time at the end of the day are polyphenols.
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Earthly Eating Recipe-Count Down To Christmas Recipe Of Sweets

Chewy Chocolate Drops With Glaze Topping
Serves: 30 (or makes 5-dozen)

Glaze Topping: Place frozen whipped topping and semi-sweet chocolate in microwaveable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 1 minute. Stir. Microwave 30 seconds or until chocolate is metled and mixture is shiny and smooth. Let stand 15 minutes to thicken. Spread over cookies. Let stand until glaze is set.

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• A small change: A small change can be a big one to your diet. If it’s the right one. If you replace th stnadard iceberg lettuce in hanburgers, tacos, and subd with fresh spinach, you add an awesome amount of vitmain A and C, folic acid, and other nutrients to meals. Honestly you can’t taste the lettuce or the spinach difference at all. So you can try this painless way to sneak more nutrition into your and your family’s favorite foods. Toss fresh spinach into anything. Salad mixes, sandwiches, pizzas and anything else you can think of. There is a restaurant in Arkansas, where I used to live, that served spinach topped pizza and let me tell you it was the best. It gave the cheese on the pizza a richer taste.

• Make a better oatmeal: For a morning calcium boost, cook instant oatmeal with skim (or soy) milk instead of water.

•De-ice your smoothies: Use frozen bananas instead of crushed ice for a nutritious twist to your favorite smoothie.

•Mix your cereals: If you are stuck on a sweet breakfast cerals, try belinging your favorite with a bett-for0you brand. For example: Mix Honey Nut Cheerious® with Grape-Nuts® or Cap’n Crunch® with some type of bran cereal.

•Modify your muffins: Mix high-fiber, nutrient-dense dried fruits like apricots into your batter, half the all-purpose flour with soy flour.

Here is another FYI in the cereal department: Eating more ceral fiber, the kind found in whole wheat breadm ceral, pasta, rice, and oats, may help you avoid one type of stomach cancer. If you consume cereal fiber you have over a 70% lower chance in developing certain types of cancers such as oral cancers, stomach cancer, throat cancers, and cancer of the esophagus.

** Think you are bypassing caffeine by drinking a citrus soda, you maybe getting just as much if not more than a regular cola. Over at Encouraging Health, Brick O’Neil shows a run down of some of the most popular citrus sodas compared to regular colas and shows their caffeine content. Read the whole story here.**
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Earthly Eating Recipe: Week Of Salmon Recipes, Day 3

Chili-Rubbed Salmon With Gazpacho-Black Bean Salso
Serves: 4

5. Serve salmon with salsa on top and alongside.

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