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Adding more fruits and vegetables to your next meal is now easy thanks
to a new Web site from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
Center that offers healthful and delicious recipes searchable by the
ingredients you like.
The individually tailored Web site,
Cancer Center Recipes Just for You, features delicious recipes
developed by Graham Kerr, TV's "Galloping Gourmet" and leading advocate
for healthy eating. The Web site also contains several hundred video
and audio clips of Kerr preparing the dishes.
"My life's work is now entirely focused upon finding effective culinary
solutions for those caught up in the chaos of our times," Kerr says.
"We hope the site helps people find more appealing ways to prepare
healthy foods that they already know they like," says Ed Saunders,
deputy director of the Center for Health Communications at the U-M
Cancer Center. Saunders developed the Web site.
To begin, site-users rate fruits and vegetables on a scale from "will
not eat" to "like a lot." The database then takes these preferences and
generates recipes for dishes including only those preferred choices and
not others. Additional search options are also available that address
dietary needs such as dairy-free, low-fat and vegan so users can find
menu choices that truly fit their needs.
"Whether you're looking for options packed with protein to help ward
off the side effects of cancer treatment or just hoping to introduce
more fruits and vegetables into your diet, the Web site will help you
find what you're looking for," says Cancer Center dietitian Joan
Daniels.
The recipe program was originally developed as part of a research study
called "MENU Choices" that examined whether access to an interactive
Web site with recipes tailored to individual food preferences motivated
people to eat more healthfully. The results of the study, funded by the
National Cancer Institute and recently completed at health care
institutions nationwide, will be released soon.
With such a valuable tool already existing, Cancer Center staff did not
want to see it go to waste. They decided to make the site public with a
little re-organization.
New features are aimed at making the site easier to use and include a
free registration option, which provides users with a log-in that will
recall menu preferences, and a recipe box to save preferred recipes. No
information will be collected for research purposes, Saunders says.
The site, which is entirely free, will see continuing improvements. In
the future, Cancer Center dieticians hope to add additional recipes for
people with eating issues not currently addressed on the site, such as
nausea, various dietary restrictions and food allergies.
"We hope the Web site will help to pique curiosity about new fruits and
vegetables, or at least help you find ways to eat more of what you
like," Saunders says.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93504.php
Cancer Center Recipes Just for You is at http://mcancer.org/recipes.
Are you looking for a specific recipe filled with your favorite fruit and vegetables?
Click RECIPE SEARCH above to search for all of the recipes that match your dietary restrictions and preferences.
Are you interested in seeing all of the recipes that we have to offer?
Click RECIPE INDEX above to see all of the recipes classified by their fruit and vegetable content.
Pick your favorite fruit or vegetable and see what recipes we have to offer.
We also offer a PERSONALIZED MENU based on your ingredient preferences, and a RECIPE BOX to store your favorite
recipes. Both features require a user account, so click the respective links above to create an account, login, and enjoy!
This web site includes video demonstrations of recipes in QuickTime and Windows Media formats. Click
your preferred video format and then click Set Video Preference.
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