Author Archives: caitlint

Crunch the Numbers – Prevent Cancer

By now it’s probably old news that we can do a lot to prevent the development of cancer in our breasts, our skin, our bones, and almost everywhere else in our bodies. It’s awesome to know we have so much power over our health, but sometimes it can be a little intimidating. Where do we [...]

Mother’s Day goes PINK!

It’s hard to believe but Mother’s Day is right around the corner! There are so many traditions for this holiday – brunch with family, looking through photo albums, handmade cards, and usually there’s something we give to these incredible women to show our appreciation. We don’t know about you but every year it seems like [...]

A Little Help from Your Friends…

Spring is in the air. Warmer weather, more sunshine, new blooms and endless possibilities of places to go and people to see. But sometimes this season of fun in the sun can easily lead us astray from our workouts, our diets and our general attention paid to our health. So, we thought up some ways [...]

Choose You Recipe: Chunky Vegetable Salad

Have you heard about Choose You? It’s the American Cancer Society’s (R) program that empowers women to lead a healthy lifestyle as the primary way to prevent cancer. One of their tools is a monthly recipe to support a healthy diet. So, we thought we would go ahead and share that with you! We hop you [...]

Springing To Life

This post was written by a good friend of The Pink Cart Team, Cathy. She wanted to share her experience of the benefits of running both socially and for her health.  It’s finally spring (well actually it feels like summer) in our part of the world and that brings us outdoors to start getting more [...]

Organic Matters

We came across this chart recently that shows the difference in nutritional value in vegetables grown with organic methods versus conventional commercial methods. We were SHOCKED! We’ve always thought, a veggie is a veggie is a veggie. But not so. Turns out the ways in which our produce is farmed and harvested makes a huge [...]

Wheat Belly

Ever since the American Cancer Society proclaimed a direct link between obesity and cancer deaths, we on the Pink Cart team have been working on a new Be Healthy section on our site as a destination for readers interested in leading a healthy lifestyle. We would love help from you, our friends, in this area [...]

Being a Woman in America

It’s International Women’s Day. And in honor of women across the globe, we think it’s time to have a discussion about some changes we need to make here at home. There’s been a lot of buzz lately about a political commentator calling a young female lawyer who testified before congress a “slut” and a “prostitute” [...]

$250,000 Milestone!!

We are doing a little jig, ok a BIG jig, over here at the Pink Cart team headquarters because we just BLEW through a financial goal of raising $250,000 for the American Cancer Society!!! THAT is a lot of money and we know that every penny is going to the important work of research and [...]

Prevent Cancer with these 10 Foods & Drinks

Want a simple way to make sure you are getting some of the essential cancer prevention foods into your diet? Here’s a quick list of 10 Super Foods and Drinks to help keep your body healthy and cancer free. We also included some ideas on how to use these foods to make your cancer prevention [...]