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Yoga instructor Tari Prinster is a seven-year cancer survivor

The positive impact yoga has on our bodies is one of the reasons it is practiced by more than 20 million people in the United States. Yoga can also be useful to those battling cancer.

That’s just one of the terrific messages in Yogawoman, a new, inspirational and empowering feature documentary narrated by Academy Award nominee Annette Bening ...

My Personal Testimony
A. L. Roberts

In April of 1983, I became very ill.  After being tested and x-rayed by my own doctor and a specialist, I was told I had cancer.  I was immediately sent to a San Francisco hospital where I was extensively tested and x-rayed.  I received the same diagnosis and the cancer had progressed and enveloped the lining of my right lung.

Several doctors reviewed my ...

April 20th, 2010 – by: David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.
My friend and colleague Richard Béliveau, Ph.D. one of the world’s leading researcher in the effects of foods on cancer biochemistry, was so struck by the results of the Bofetta study that I discussed in my last blog that he sent me his reaction, which I’d like to share with you. According to Dr. Béliveau, although we know that consumption of copious amounts of certain specific fruits and vegetables reduces the ...

The first step to cooking healthy is to stock your kitchen with a variety of foods that you can throw together for healthy meals in a hurry. Keep these foods on hand for fast meals on busy nights.

In the cupboard
• Beans: black, pinto, kidney, chickpeas, lentils, refried
• Rice: brown, long grain, rice mixes
• Pasta: whole wheat, spaghetti, fettucini, penne, bowtie, ramen noodles
• Other grains: couscous, orzo, cornmeal, whole wheat crackers, bread sticks, bread crumbs
• Onions
• Canned tomatoes: diced, whole, ...