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How You Metabolize Fat and Sugar

How you metabolize fat and sugar is completely different. “The conventional wisdom doesn’t stack up against the emerging research that shows us that a calorie is not a calorie (when you eat it). In a vacuum or a lab, calories from all foods release the same amount of energy when burned—whether the food is coconut […]

Beware of Sugar

[Editor’s note: Please beware of sugar! This article, Could Cancer’s Favorite Building-Block Be Right Under Your Nose (And On Your Dinner Plate)?, is by Ty Bollinger who is a cancer survivor and author. He has granted us permission to post it here. Enjoy and watch the series, The Quest for the Cures Continues. I have watched […]

Can We Recover from Our Sugar Addiction

Two women walk into a bar and discover extremely dangerous white stuff…. Sounds like a joke, but it’s actually a powerful pattern interrupt for you and your health. Sugar is the dangerous white stuff that has probably hijacked your health, blood sugar, waistline, and taste buds. Can we recover from our sugar addiction? I know […]

23 Powerful Lessons to Learn from a Cancer Survivor

[Note: This article is by Heather Von St. James from The Purpose Ferry, Luminita Saviac] At just 36 years old I was diagnosed with mesothelioma. This very aggressive and rare cancer left me, a new mother to a 3 ½-month-old, with a life expectancy of just 15 months. Through determination, the support of my family, […]

Are You Going MAD?

Are you going MAD (Modern American Diet) from the foods you are eating? We are not built to eat like MAD men and women! “Thanks to the introduction of industrial-scale food processing, Americans have changed their dietary habits more in the past 100 years than all of humanity had in the previous 100,000. The Modern […]

How to Feed Cancer

I’m sure you don’t want to know how to feed cancer, but you are probably already doing so, without knowing it. Why do I say this? Because most people eat about 150 pounds of sugar every year without paying any heed to the well-known fact that cancer feeds on sugar! So many food substances have […]

The Unnamed Diet

On October 24, I attended at talk by Donald Abrams, MD on the unnamed diet (Nutrition in Health and Wellness) at the Desta Epicures Guild in San Anselmo, California. Dr. Abrams is an Integrative Oncologist at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Professor of Clinical […]

Killing You Softly

Roberta Flack tells us that “[He] is killing me softly with his song.” But I say, sugar is killing you softly with its sweetness. This is especially true for refined sugar. There are other foods that also my be killing you softly. These are mainly packaged foods that contain GMO (genetically modified organisms) ingredients like […]

Do Not Feed Your Cancer!

In Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness: How to Thrive and Succeed in a Complex Cancer System, there is a small section on “The Cancer Diet.” The major point of that section is, “Do not feed your cancer!” What does this mean? Cancer thrives on sugar – almost any kind of sugar. Why do […]

I Like This – Healthy Cells Grow All By Themselves

[Editor’s note: Peter Cutler, a dharma brother, fellow Order of Interbeing (OI) member, and cancer survivor responded to my poem (see Walking Meditation For Healing) with this statement: ‘Thank you, Jerome. I like this: ‘Healthy Cells Grow All By Themselves.’” This was on two threads of the OI community Yahoo group called, “Practicing with ALS” […]