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Can Mushrooms Help During Cancer Treatment?

By Heather Alexander — 2021

There have been more than 2,000 studies focused on mushrooms and cancer in the last 10 years.

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Eating Mushrooms Vastly Cuts Cancer Risk, According to New Research

A meta-analysis by researchers at Pennsylvania State University published in the journal Advances in Nutrition this year, found a surprisingly strong inverse relationship between mushroom consumption and cancer risk by analyzing 17 cancer studies published between 1966 and 2020.

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Does Cancer Treatment Cause Unwanted Weight Gain?

Weight loss is a common side effect of some cancer treatments. But sometimes, the opposite happens—and patients end up packing on the pounds instead of losing them.

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Can Food Fight Cancer?

What we eat, as well as how often we exercise, can affect our risk of cancer. Healthy lifestyle factors—such as a nourishing diet, regular physical activity, and a normal body weight—prevent 30% to 40% of cancers, according to a study in the journal Advances in Radiation Oncology.

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The Autoimmune Spectrum: Does It Exist, and Are You on It?

Autoimmunity—which affects three quarters more women than it does men—encompasses a range of conditions and diseases that involve the immune system mistakenly attacking the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells.

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Unhappy Meals

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

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The Cure for the American Diet: Nutrient Density

The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

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