The holidays are for spending quality time with the people that you love, but for many of us, the holidays turn into the most stressful time of year. To help you get through, we’ve compiled 5-tips for a stress-free holiday… 1. BREATHE // Deep breathing is one of the best ways to lower stress in…
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…
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…
Great news friends, today marks a big step in the right direction for better health in our country. The SAFE CHEMICALS ACT has passed to set the stage for a full Senate vote! Current laws aren’t protecting us from products we use every day that contain toxic chemicals linked to breast cancer and other diseases. …
Soy causes some confusion when it comes to its link to women’s health. Consuming soy products has been said to reduce breast cancer risk, but too much soy is thought to increase risk. So where do you draw the line between healthy and unhealthy soy intake? Soy can have a healthy and possibly protective role…
There is a lot of awareness about what plastic food packaging does to the environment, especially with the recent L.A. plastic grocery bag ban, but have you thought about what that plastic might be doing to your food and your body? Check this out: In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives,…
Here at B4BC, we are constantly advocating the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle for cancer prevention. Now, recent studies are showing that not only can this help protect you against cancer, but for cancer survivors it can also lessen the risk of recurrence and boost long-term survival odds. Read this article at MSN Health for…
Last year, about 253,880 women in the US and Canada were diagnosed with breast cancer. One in eight women are expected to develop breast cancer during her lifetime, and 1 in 29 are expected to die from it. In the US, there is a 90.5% five year survival rate, and in Canada it is…
Finally, spring is here, a season that let’s you hit the beach for a surf sesh one day and do some t-shirt skiing the next! Give a fresh start to this sunny season with a life detox, and do some Spring cleaning, inside and out. Here’s how: 1. It’s time for those heavy winter foods…
Mom always said to eat your veggies, but she probably didn’t say anything about cruciferous veggies specifically. Cruciferous vegetables, including cabbage, kale, cauliflower, and especially broccoli, contain high amounts of sulforaphane, which has major benefits for fighting breast cancer. Here’s a quote from our friend Vivekan at Bodhisattva Yoga: More and more, science is pointing to diet…