Fit Fare

Eating fruits and vegetables on a regular basis is certainly a terrific foundation to any diet, but it gets bumped up a notch when you’re consciously choosing foods that may decrease your risk of developing ovarian cancer, which happens to be the fifth-leading cancer killer among women.

Amping up your intake of low-fat, high-fiber foods, like oatmeal and bran cereal, is certainly a good start, and in a recent issue of Family Circle magazine, they gave a couple other good tips on getting more cancer-fighting foods into your daily food intake:

- Instead of eating a pastry for breakfast, drizzle honey on whole-grain toast to satisfy your sweet tooth.

- Munch on edamame (soybean pods boiled in salted water), rather than greasy potato chips, with your lunch.

- At dinner, replace half your meat with steamed vegetables. Or trade the entire serving for cooked pinto beans.

Photo from MorgueFile.