The bread isn’t as bad as you think. It’s more than an ultra-processed food

The first group includes unrefined or minimally processed foods such as vegetables or meat without additives. Secondly there are culinary ingredients that come from natural sources, but have been ground or processed to make them easier to cook or edible like flour. The third group includes processed foods. These are made by combining ingredients, including … Read more

Perspective | When dealing with a cancer prognosis, sometimes information isn’t power

Comment on this storyComment At first, it often seemed like my mother’s oncologist, with his mostly bald head and dry sense of humor, was the God of our family. God in the sense that he was omniscient, keeper of secrets, bearer of good or bad news. For the first two years of my mom’s cancer, … Read more