Stop cancer before it starts with prevention.

The feature article in the 2011 summer issue of Innovate is all about prevention – when it comes to cancer, that is. Knowing your risk is the first step you can take towards a healthier life. The article also discusses the benefits of following even one of the eight keys to prevention. After I finished [...]

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America’s First National Prevention Strategy.

Yesterday, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin hosted a press conference to announce the nation's first EVER National Prevention Strategy. This is huge Public Health news..HUGE. The Obama administration continues to be an administration that places the focus on public health and disease prevention. The purpose of the meeting was to talk about how America needs to refocus its perspective [...]

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Food Is Fundamental – So Where is the Funding?

By Courtenay O'Connor, CCS Associate Director On Monday, June 13, 2011, the Bread for the World Institute and Concern Worldwide sponsored an international conference on 1,000 Days to Scale up Nutrition for Mothers and Children: Building Political Commitment in Washington DC. CCS teamed up with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to [...]

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Surviving on a gold coin.

Could you live on just two dollars a day? More than 6,000 Australians accepted the dare and took part in the campaign Live below the line. Isabel Steffens explores the ups and downs of a challenge that seems to be impossible. Take a moment and think about how much money you have spent on food [...]

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Let’s Un-Process Our Children’s Food.

Let's Un-Process Our Children's Food: prepare everything from scratch and eliminate processed foods as much as possible. Can a Vegetarian Diet be BAD? I 'got' it. I was vegetarian in high school and college because I learned that a plant-based diet was better for my health and for the pl … Read More

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Cancer Survivor Cheryl Crow Writes New Book On Nutrition.

Grammy winner, Cheryl Crow has survived breast cancer and is on a mission to educate people on healthy foods. She wants you and your family to eat right so you won't have to face what she went through. Her new book is called "If It Makes You Healthy". She wrote it with the help of her personal chef, [...]

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