Who hasn’t stuffed themselves silly at Thanksgiving dinner? Overeating is tradition, after all—a 3,000-plus-calorie one! Here’s an article by Women’s Health Magazine explaining how your system deals with the overload. In the first minute…your taste buds are atwitter and send pleasure signals to the brain. The message: More, please! As you chew, enzymes in your…
Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for family, friends, good health and amazing food! For this weeks Tasty Tuesday we found a healthy & decadent side dish that you can feel extra good about serving up to the family, “Brussels Sprouts with Apples & Shallots”! (Photo via WholeFoodsMarket.com) This easy stovetop dish creates a delicious balance between…
B4BC is thinking of all our friends on the East Coast who were badly hit by Hurricane Sandy; we are taking immediate action to provide assistance to breast cancer patients in the hardest-hit areas after the storm. The B4BC Survivorship Fund will be granting $2,500 to the NYC based, You Can Thrive Foundation, in support of…
These past few days on the road have been action-packed up along the Northern CA Coast. Our Check One, Two Campus Tour landed at UC-Santa Cruz yesterday for a wet, yet excellent day of educational outreach. It rained much of the day, but that didn’t stop us or the students at UCSC from stopping by…
This week our guest blogger is Tracy Feldstein, founder of organic body care line hellomellow, which donates 5% of all products in their “balance collection” to B4BC’s Survivorship Fund. The importance of being mellow. As a massage therapist and body mind therapist, I am constantly reminding people of the importance of being mellow. In my years of…
This week our Tasty Tuesday comes straight from the kitchen of B4BC Team Rider and Olympian Elena Hight! “As my own personal effort to conserve our environment and support my local community I always try to shop at my local farmer’s market on Sunday’s. The organic produce is literally just picked from the local farms…
From Sept. 14-16, B4BC hosted the first ever Ocean ReTreat Yourself for 9 breast cancer survivors from the ages of 26-56 in a beautiful, ocean front house in Encinitas, Calif. Together with B4BC Wellness Ambassador and The North Face sponsored pro snowboarder Megan Pischke Porcheron, we were excited to offer a weekend focused on wellness,…
We were saddend to hear the news earlier today that snowboarding pioneer Tom Sims has passed away. Tom’s innovation in snow and skate helped revolutionize the two worlds! He’s credited with creating the world’s first metal-edged snowboards, freestyle snowboards, the first women specific boards and pro-models, building the first snow half-pipe, and the list goes…
BEATS FOR BOOBS (B::B) // Los Angeles – Join us October 10th at the Avalon for a Beats For Boobs celebration and fundraiser benefiting B4BC, the Busted Foundation, and the LA Gay & Lesbian Center’s Breast Cancer Support Group! Tickets on sale now for an evening of music, art, fashion, delicious dish, and more. Additional…