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I just received a letter in the mail from the American Institute for Cancer Research asking for a donation.  Along with the letter came a card with tips to reduce your risk of developing cancer.  I found them interesting.  The card reads:

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By making a few, simple changes in your daily routine, you can reduce your risk of developing cancer.  The following tips will hep you to get started:

- Take a look at your plate… Are most of the foods on your plate plant-based?  Fill your plate with 2/3 (or more) vegetables, fruits, whole grains and beans and 1/3 (or less) animal protein.  Check out the AICR New American Plate program at www.aicr.org

- Keep fit with a variety of activities you enjoy to make exercise a lifelong habit and maintain your weight.  Try walking, dancing, cycling and gardening.

- Shop for a variety of vegetables, and fruits in the supermarket or farmers market.  Select some that you haven’t tried in a while.  Try mango, jicama, leeks, kale and others.

- Steam vegetables lightly in the microwave.  Try Brussels sprouts or asparagus again, or try some interesting unflavored frozen combinations and season with a bit of light soy sauce, ginger, balsamic vinegar or parmesan cheese.  Or lightly saute a combination of red peppers, carrots, broccoli and yellow squash.  Or lightly stir fry some fresh spinach in olive oil with a bit of chopped garlic.

- Add sliced peaches, chopped apples, strawberries or raisins to your whole grain cereal in the morning.

- Cut down on portion sizes of meat and poultry.  Remove half the filling from an overstuffed deli sandwich. Update a favorite casserole by changing the meat to vegetable ratio.  Chicken and brown rice casserole with broccoli can become a brown rice and broccoli casserole with chicken.  Use animal protein as a condiment rather than the major focus of your meal.

- Add red kidney beans or black beans to a salad, soup or stew instead of meat.  Or mash some garbanzo beans with some chopped garlic, olive oil and freshly ground pepper and sprinkle with some toasted sesame seeds.  Spread on whole grain bread as a sandwich filling or enjoy with green pepper strips and carrot slices as a dip.

- Work to maintain a healthy weight.  If you are overweight now, remember that losing just 10% of your weight can have a healthful effect on your body.
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Notice a trend here?? In case you didn’t, I’ll point out the obvious. Six out of the eight tips to reduce your risk of cancer, as suggested by the American Institute for Cancer Research (I’d consider them experts on the subject), are to eat less meat and more fruits & veggies.

I’m not making this up people!  EATING MEAT IS CAUSING CANCER.

Cut back (way back), for your own health.

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Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Good ol’ fashioned PB&J, with a side of baby carrots
Dinner: Penne pasta with mushrooms, tomato, spinach and parsley from Noodles & Company

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