Why cooking matters…
As we wind down last month’s focus on food ingredients and their many health effects, I couldn’t go without mentioning another Fall focus; cancer awareness! With September being Childhood Cancer Awareness month and October Breast Cancer Awareness, there are lessons we can adapt into our lives, whether we’ve experienced cancer in our family or not! This is not a subject many of us want to think about, and you may seem far removed from it, but the fact is approximately “1 in 285 children in the USA are diagnosed with cancer before the age of 19”, and an estimated “1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer”. There is a growing number of children being diagnosed with various forms of this disease. After all, it’s not just adult cancer cases that are growing.
So how does this affect us all and what does food have to do with it? Knowledge is everything…
