The Healthy Journal

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Since I'm eating lots of plant-based food, I need to be conscious of getting enough complete protein. Quinoa is a great source of a perfect or complete protein. It contains all the amino acids you need. And it's so versatile. Even restaurants are adding quinoa to the menu in place of rice. The part I like is how easy and fast it is to prepare quinoa. I think you'll love this salad I came up. Lots of yummy veggies and quinoa plus a dressing with a tinge of sour flavor. I love Kalamata olives. I hope you do too. If not, you can add black olives for a milder taste. And who doesn't love avocado, which this salad also has? I've eaten it all my itself as a meal. Yes! For dinner! Never be afraid of having it for dinner. It's light. It's healthy. It contains all the nutrition your body needs. Why wouldn't you have it for dinner? Quinoa, Cherry Tomato & Olive Salad from Chris Pedersen yield 4 - 6 category Salad cuisine Vegan, Vegetarian ingredients 2 C lo

I was recently interviewed by Jill Bernard of the WellBEing Resource online and in print guide to health practitioners in the Sacramento region. I hope you'll take the time to read the interview and tell me what you think. You may learn something you didn't know about me. Interview with Chris Pedersen, Health Coach | Blogger | Cancer Conquerer, Healthy Journey Cafe

I  LOVE  coffee. I mean I like the taste—never ruined it with sugar (yeah, even me a former sugar addict). So when I found I needed to eliminate coffee from my diet, I was devastated—kind of describes how I felt about many things I needed to stop eating/drinking. Reading the book  Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods by Verne Varona  started me on my healing diet, which I attribute to  the cure for my hereditary curse . Green tea was one of several things I added to fight cancer, which tended to grow in my colon. Most are familiar with the addictive properties of caffeinated coffee—just try a day without it and get  smacked  with a whopper  caffeine withdrawal  headache. But did you know that coffee, regular and decaf, is very acid in the body? When the body becomes acidic due to a bad diet (consumption of processed foods with artificial ingredients and sugar), it becomes a cancer-producing, inflammatory environment. Green Tea: A Better Beverage Even though green tea contains some caffei

Tip: A Canadian study found "garlic is by far the strongest inhibitor of tumor cell growth." The active ingredient in garlic is allicin, which is only available when a protein fragment and a heat-sensitive enzyme are co-mingled by slicing or pressing the clove. If you use garlic in a cooked recipe, to ensure the creation of allicin, keep the cut/pressed garlic from heat for 10 minutes. Follow this little step to reap the benefits of garlic's potent cancer-fighting properties.