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Healthy Protein from Lemony Chicken

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roast-chickenMaintaining a healthy body weight is AICR’s top recommendation for cancer prevention. And including enough high protein foods at your meals can keep you feeling full longer to help you get to and stay a healthy weight.

 

Our Health-e-Recipe for Lemony Honey Glazed Roasted Chicken gives you excellent-tasting chicken that can supply lean protein for more than one meal. Lemon and herbs are both healthy additions that contain phytochemicals, and the honey helps the chicken brown while adding a yummy sweet flavor.

 

It’s important to get enough lean protein to stay satisfied when you are trying to eat for weight loss for overall health and reducing cancer risk. AICR advises limiting lean animal protein to one-third or less of your plate and filling the remaining 2/3 or more with plant-based foods. A four-ounce serving of Lemony Chicken has 25 grams of protein, a big percentage of the 46 grams per day for adult women and 56 grams for adult men recommended by the Centers for Disease Control.

 

Other healthy sources of protein include 1 cup of cooked dry beans, about 16 grams, 8-ounce container of low-fat yogurt has about 11 grams of protein (6 ounces of nonfat plain Greek yogurt has 17 grams), a 3-ounce piece of lean meat about 21 grams; and 1 cup of nonfat milk, 8 grams of protein

 

Researchers are investigating the links between obesity, physical activity and cancer this week at the international conference presented by AICR affiliate the World Cancer Research Fund and the International Association for the Study of Obesity. While the complexities of what we eat and our physical activity levels are under study, you can use AICR’s Health-e-Recipes and physical activity ideas to reach a healthy weight with practical, enjoyable steps everyday.

 

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A Virtuous Cupcake

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small cupcakesIf the cupcake trend has smitten you with too much “cupcake awareness” and high-calorie temptation, try this Health-e-Recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes.

Beets are the key ingredient and we’ve added cocoa plus spices, a little healthy fat and not too much sugar to concoct a delectable treat to indulge in with less guilt. Using canned unpickled beets provides natural red color that translates perfectly into a Devil’s Food-like cake. The red color comes from betacyanin, an indole phytochemical also found in chard.

If you don’t have or can’t find buttermilk, just use the same amount of reduced-fat milk and sour it with a teaspoon of lemon juice to get the same result. As for the cream cheese frosting, it can also be substituted with just a sprinkle of powdered sugar on the tops of these cupcakes to save a few more calories.

You’ll love the velvety texture of these cupcakes. The AICR Test Kitchen features more tempting healthy recipes. Subscribe to our weekly Health-e-Recipe.

What Makes a Health-e-Recipe a Health-e-Recipe?

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Picture 87During National Public Health Week, we’re taking you behind the scenes at AICR to show you how we craft our empowering, evidence-based messages about cancer prevention, and target them to our different audiences.

It’s not enough to show people the research that eating more plant foods and less meat offers powerful protection from cancer.  Nor it is enough to give them a simple rule of thumb to follow.

That information is important, but information only takes people so far. To help them actually make the kind of vital, life-saving changes AICR recommends, we need to provide them with tools — practical, versatile, easy-to-use tools.

And when it comes to those AICR Recommendations that deal with the foods we choose, the tools in question are recipes. Our recipes distill the wealth of scientific evidence on cancer prevention and transfer it to the dinner plate. They make the science real — and flavorful. Continue reading →