Nutrition

Anti-Cancer Tip #2: How to Boost your Immune System

It has been estimated by the World Cancer Research Fund that one-quarter to one-third of the cancers that occur in the United States are due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and excess weight. This research supports our belief that embracing a healthy lifestyle is essential for anyone whose life is unfortunately touched with cancer. Follow the tips below to maximize the immune support of your diet.

Eric’s top recommendations to optimize cancer prevention, treatment, and survival

It has been estimated by the World Cancer Research Fund that one-quarter to one-third of the cancers that occur in the United States are due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and excess weight. This research supports our belief that embracing a healthy lifestyle is essential for anyone whose life is unfortunately touched with cancer. Follow the tips below to increase the anti-inflammatory potential of your diet.

​Anti-Cancer Cooking Class on Tuesday 2/18/14

Celebrate Cancer Prevention Month by joining Eric C. Sharer, MPH, RD, CSO, CDN the Stram Medical Center's Registered Dietitian and clinical nutritionist for an exciting evening focusing on how to prevent, fight and survive cancer by embracing a healthy diet. He will demonstrate quick and healthy recipes and cooking techniques to maximize the healing and disease fighting potential of your food, while minimizing the time and energy you spend in the kitchen.

The Weight Loss Puzzle

Most everyone wants to lose weight and many people are successful at losing some weight. But the difficulty often lies in keeping the weight off, or losing some weight, but not reaching your overall goals.

Successful Detox Tips: Optimizing the livers ability to detox!

Many organs and body processes are involved in the detox process, but the liver is the main organ that is involved in the processing and removal of metabolic wastes and foreign substances, also known as toxins, from the body. In order to successfully embrace a detox program it is important to understand how the detox process works in the body.

Tips for a Successful Detox

Detoxification is a term that is often used for chemical and alcohol dependencies. However, it is also a term, which describes the removal of normal metabolic wastes that accumulate from the body’s normal functions.

It also includes the body’s process of removing foreign substances which invade us through living in a polluted world. This includes chemicals and organism that are found in our air, water, food and homes.

Anti-Cancer Recommendations and Recipes

It has been estimated by the World Cancer Research Fund that one-quarter to one-third of the cancers that occur in the United States are due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and excess weight. This research supports our belief that embracing a healthy lifestyle is essential for anyone whose life is unfortunately touched with cancer.

Maximize the Health Potential of your Fall Produce: The Power of Carotenoids

As the seasons change and the beautiful foliage becomes ever present, the potential health benefits of our seasonal produce also changes as the fall harvest is plentiful. Embrace the local fall produce to maximize the health potential of your meals. Be sure to incorporate a variety of different colored fruits and vegetables to ensure the widest health coverage, especially from a class of compounds known as carotenoids.

Multi-Vitamins ? Are They Safe?

While a recent NBC News article and recent studies have been promoting the concept that multi-vitamins (MVI) are not safe or appropriate to take, MVI do show promise in being a useful part of an optimal health plan.

Fructose: The Weight-Gain Sugar

Obesity is an epidemic in America that now affects many millions of adults and children. Obesity is classified as having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30.