Tag: antioxidant

Anti-Cancer Lifestyle

Written by Kathryn Jost on July 22, 2013.

Avoid refined sugar, sugar fuels cancer growth, for more info see “Sugar: the Bitter Truth” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM . Eat foods with a high ORAC value; ORAC, Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity is a measure of the anti-oxidant power of a food. Our intake of antioxidants should balance the free radicals we generate due to lifestyle environmental assaults; radiation, pollution, toxins, stress, eating junk food, lack of sleep, etc. Research shows that consumption of antioxidants...

BEETS: A Super Anti-oxidant

Written by Kathryn Jost on January 21, 2013.

Beets have many benefits, an anti-oxidant, cell detoxification and cleansing, helps with depression, anti-inflammatory, brain and energy booster, and studies have shown that beet juice inhibits the formation of cancer-causing compounds called nitrosamines.

Health Tip: CRUCIFEROUS VEGGIES

Written by Kathryn Jost on December 15, 2011.

Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, watercress, kale and collard greens contain sulforaphane. This is an antioxidant that has been shown to speed up the detoxification of many harmful chemicals from your body and is believed to suppress cancer and tumor growth.