I'm no cook. And I'll never claim a recipe is my own. Anyone who likes my taco salad should thank my friend Kim and her mom Kathy. My turkey meatballs: all credit goes to my brother-in-law's mom. The brownies I once whipped up and now have given up: kudos to Betty Crocker. And this recipe I'm about to share comes straight from the pages of the May 2007 issue of Family Circle magazine. It's such a simple recipe -- takes five minutes tops. I probably could have invented it on my own. But I didn't.Go With The Grain
Top 1 cup whole-grain cereal with:
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
1/2 cup each strawberries and raspberries
1 cup 1% milk
This get-up-and-go breakfast -- it has 367 calories, 9 grams of fat, and 2 grams of saturated fat -- packs quite a punch with its propensity to lower your breast cancer risk.
"The fiber in whole-grain cereals reduces the amount of estrogen circulating in your body by binding to it and sweeping it from your system," says Diana Dyer, dietician, breast cancer survivor, and author of A Dietitian's Cancer Story.
Ground flaxseed provides a good dose of lignans -- they also reduce estrogen -- and berries, like strawberries and raspberries, supply a phytochemical that slows the rate at which cancer cells multiply. The cup of 1% milk provides 64% of your recommended allotment of vitamin D, known to slow the growth of breast cancer cells.
I'm definitely giving this recipe a try. You should too.
1. Thanks for the plug. I think of you every time I make that Taco salad. Enjoy-have you tried it with turkey instead of the ground beef?
Posted at 7:56AM on May 15th 2007 by kmeyer19