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How would you feel about a recipe that is healthy, delicious, colourful and quick and easy to prepare? Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Here is one of our favourite vegetable side dishes. Aspargus spears with tough ends removed 1 small zucchini, cut in rounds 1 small onion, cut in rings ½ small bell pepper,…
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More Possible Dietary Causes of Cancer Now, in continuation of the last blog, “What Does Eating Plants Do For Cancer? Part Two”, we’ll look at more links of diet with cancer. HCAs (Heterocyclic amines) Heterocyclic amines occur when muscle meat (chicken, beef, pork and fish) is cooked over high temperatures such as those found when…
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Jamaican jerk is a fragrant and delectable mixture of sweet and savoury with enough heat thrown in to satisfy your taste. Its history can be traced back to the middle of the 17th century when a group of slaves in Jamaica escaped their British captors and disappeared into the Jamaican mountains. They became known as…
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Possible Dietary Causes of Cancer In “What Does Eating Plants Do For Cancer? Part One” evidence for the positive correlation of the foods we eat with cancer was presented. The question that comes to mind is what mechanisms are driving this effect. Why is food so powerful both as a promotor of cancer and as…
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The holidays are rolling quickly towards us and with them come festivities with family and friends and the inevitable foods of celebration. Unhappily the traditional foods we prepare at this time of year are not usually at the top of the healthy check list. Whatever holiday you may be celebrating, the centerpiece of your meal…
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My name is Debra Harley (BScPhm) and I welcome you to my retirement project, this website. Over the course of a life many lessons are learned, altering deeply-rooted ideas and creating new passions.
