by Cathy Leman | Mar 7, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Food labeling, Healthy Eating, Nutrition
You know how confusing it can be to make healthy choices when grocery shopping. Or eating out. Or buying a dark chocolate bar. You do your best, yet you often feel like you overlooked something. Or misunderstood something. Or forgot to ask about something. One year... 
by Cathy Leman | Feb 28, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Nutrition
I don’t care how fabulous your grocery shopping skills are. It’s impossible to write a grocery list from “everything in moderation.” As a breast cancer patient, you deserve a crackerjack treatment team. Oncologist? Check. Radiologist? Check.... 
by Cathy Leman | Feb 13, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Heart Health, Nutrition, Risk Reduction
“An increasing number of patients with pre-existing cardiovascular diseases are presenting for breast cancer therapy, adding another level of complexity.” At ~108,000 beats per day, every minute of every hour, your heart faithfully pumps oxygen and... 
by Cathy Leman | Jan 23, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Nutrition, Plant-based, Risk Reduction
We don’t know for certain, but it’s been postulated that perhaps there’s a critical period after a breast cancer diagnosis when we should move quickly to change the environment of the cancer patient. This final post in my three-part series on breast cancer... 
by Cathy Leman | Oct 24, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Plant-based, Prevention, Risk Reduction
We don’t yet have true PREVENTION of breast cancer through diet, and it’s misleading to use that term as if we do. We can certainly adopt preventive lifestyle strategies and habits, but for now, the most accurate and truthful term is “risk reduction.” As... 
by Cathy Leman | Oct 18, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Nutrition, Prevention, Risk Reduction
Nutritional genomics is a broad term encompassing nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and nutritional epigenomics, all of which involve how nutrients and genes interact. Identifying the effects of individual nutrients or an entire nutritional plan based on an...