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Recipes & Dining
Healthy recipes, cooking advice and dining, including recipes from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
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Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Pumpkin Bundt Cake
A bundt cake built on canned pumpkin puree, whole-wheat pastry flour, buttermilk and reduced-fat sour cream, spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg and baked 70 to 75 minutes. Use firm sugar or pie pumpkins; jack-o'-lantern flesh is watery and stringy.
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Healthy Recipes: Pan Seared Fennel and Orange Salad
The American Institute for Cancer Research pairs seared fennel with orange and olives over baby greens, and suggests serving it alongside poultry or fish. It also restates the New American Plate rule: two-thirds of the plate plant foods, one-third or less animal protein.
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Healthy Recipes: Cook Carrots and Potatoes the Moroccan Way
Supermarket couscous is nothing like the Moroccan version, steamed three times with every grain rolled between the cook's palms. The recipe here is a tagine of carrots, potatoes and green olives, whose only fat comes from the olives, and it reheats well.
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Healthy Recipes: Chicken Crusted with Almond and Flax
Pounded chicken breasts marinate in olive oil, almond butter, lemon, garlic and herbs, then bake under a crust of almond meal and ground flax rather than frying. Cayenne and paprika add heat; flaxseed supplies the plant form of omega-3 fats.
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Healthy Recipes: Panko Crusted Chicken with Grilled Peach Salsa
An AICR recipe pairs panko-crusted chicken with a grilled peach salsa of green onions, jalapeno, lime, cilantro and mint. The write-up explains clingstone and freestone peach varieties and why panko stays crisper and absorbs less oil than standard breadcrumbs.
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Healthy Recipes: Sensible After-School Snacking
A herbed focaccia topped with mushrooms, tomatoes, green pepper, olives and red onion, pitched as an after-school alternative to chips that can be baked on the weekend and warmed later. Makes 12 servings at 110 calories each.
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Healthy Recipes: Kale with Peaches and Walnuts
Dana Jacobi of the American Institute for Cancer Research compares curly, lacinato and Russian kale, then trims and cooks curly kale to mellow its bitterness, sauteing it with apple juice and topping it with sliced peaches and toasted walnuts.
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The Easiest Way to Eat ALL the Veggies You Need Every Day...
Mercola presents juicing as a simple way to hit daily vegetable targets, improve nutrient absorption and include vegetables you would not eat whole. He suggests at least 16 ounces a day, ideally a quart split between morning and afternoon, and warns against juicing orange and grapefruit peel.
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Healthy Recipes: Herbed Italian White Beans
This AICR side dish sautés garlic and dried sage, then simmers canned cannellini beans with chopped tomatoes, finishing with fresh basil and red wine vinegar. It makes four servings, works alongside hot or cold dishes, and reheats well as leftovers.
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Healthy Recipes: Farro Salad Primavera
Farro simmered about 30 minutes, then tossed with steamed sugar-snap peas and asparagus, grape tomatoes, shallots, mushrooms, lemon and olive oil. AICR notes whole grains, alongside plenty of vegetables and fruit, may help protect against colorectal cancer.
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Healthy Recipes: Soft Cornbread with Black Beans
A Southern spoon bread of stone-ground cornmeal and whole-wheat pastry flour with buttermilk, sweet onion, green chiles, corn and black beans, baked 30 minutes. The writer notes research suggesting black beans may help protect cells from damage that can lead to cancer.
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Healthy Recipes: Greek Turkey Sliders
Dana Jacobi explains how she keeps fat-free ground turkey breast juicy in a slider: feta, shredded spinach, egg white and instant potato flakes mixed into the meat, plus a garlic-oregano dressing brushed on before grilling and whisked with mayonnaise for the bun.
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Health Recipes: Seared Herb Chicken and Veggies
Chicken cubes coated in ground fennel, cumin, turmeric, coriander and oregano, then seared with red and yellow peppers, carrots, red onion and five sliced garlic cloves, finished with lime juice and mint. AICR presents it as a New American Plate meal in under 30 minutes.
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Healthy Recipes: Seared Herb Chicken and Veggies
A 30-minute stir-fry of cubed chicken breast with bell peppers, carrots, onion and five cloves of garlic, spiced with fennel, cumin, turmeric and coriander. AICR frames it as its New American Plate approach: two-thirds or more vegetables, one-third or less animal protein.
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Healthy Recipes: Swiss Style Muesli
A chilled alternative to hot oatmeal: old-fashioned rolled oats soak overnight, then get mixed with yogurt, honey or brown sugar and diced apple. The recipe warns off instant and quick-cooking oats, which turn mushy, and invites swapping in other seasonal or dried fruit.
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Scientists highlight link between stress and appetite
University of Calgary researchers report in Neuron that in rats the stress of missing a meal temporarily rewires circuits in the hypothalamus, which may blunt endocannabinoid control of appetite and raise food drive. Blocking stress hormones prevented the change.
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Healthy Recipes: Red Pepper Gazpacho
A no-cook chilled soup of roasted red pepper, tomato juice, garlic and olive oil, garnished with diced cucumber, green pepper, sweet onion and zucchini. The notes tie Mediterranean-style eating to less yearly weight gain and lower heart disease and cancer rates.
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