Five Healthy Ways to Fight Cancer
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
1 1/2 cups couscous
1 1/2 cups hot water
6 fresh apricots, chopped3/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted
3 tbs. fresh lemon juice
3 green onions, green stems only
1 cup fresh mint leaves, chopped
2 handfuls cilantro leaves, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbs. lemon zest, finely grates
1 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
Sea sat to taste
In a small pot bring the water to a boil. Place the couscous in a heat-proof medium bowl and pour the boiling water over it; stir with a fork to combine.
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.
Happy Eating!
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