Eating the Rainbow to Fight Cancer

I've made small changes to my diet since diagnosis, and one is to eat an even wider variety of vegetables. 

I love this video from the Zakim Center's nutritionist (I also wrote about her video Does Sugar Feed Cancer). She makes the challenge of eating a variety of vegetables seem easier by breaking them into color groups. 

Vegetables have phytonutrients - basically the plant's own immune system - and the more colors you eat, the more variety of beneficial phytonutrients you get. 

What colors of fruit and vegetables did I eat today?

It was fun to think about my day of food and color code. I could have used a bit more red and white foods. I did have radishes in the fridge. But overall, pretty good.

• Breakfast - a slice of bread with almond butter and fruit
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Almond butter (she mentions nuts in the video too)
• Snacks
• Banana
• Peanut butter
• Dried apricots
• Dark chocolate (she doesn't mention this, but it has flavonoids!)
• Lunch - veggie & dip snack, homemade vegetarian lentil/sweet potato empanada, salad
• Snap peas
• Beet dip (love this recipe!)
• Sweet potatoes (in an empanada)
  
• Lentils - she didn't mention these but they do have phytonutrients too
• Date
• Lettuce
• Dinner - cabbage orange slaw, vegan hot dog with sprouted bun, steamed broccoli
• Purple cabbage
• Oranges
• Raisins
• Walnuts
• Broccoli