Tag: breast cancer
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Blogpost: Breast Cancer Beware!
It is October which means Halloween, Fall, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The fall colors are shades of orange, yellow, and red. But we associate breast cancer awareness with pink. Go Pink, the marketers say. Run, walk, and donate for a cure. The awareness is all centered around early detection. It seems logical that if…
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Podcast: If Grizzlies Eat Plants, Why Can’t You?
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. Grizzly bears eat a lot of plants because catching animals is not that easy. Wolves are carnivores but are only successful at capturing their prey 30% of their efforts. If these to predators don’t eat meat every day then why do humans? Our lifestyle diseases are largely from metabolic…
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Blogpost: Soy Misconceptions
I recently spent the day at a local health fair promoting the benefits of plant based nutrition. Soy was brought up more than once as a reason for not being plant based. Apparently, there must be a rule somewhere that makes soy a mandatory ingredient in a vegan diet. I have not been able to…
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Blogpost: Breast Cancer Prevention
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Pink labels on products line the shelves. The focus in on early detection and donating to find a cure. One in 8 women will develop breast cancer over the course of a lifetime. There will be an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 63,960 cases of…