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Try mixing most of the items mentioned in this anti-cancer food list into a smoothie with non-fat yogurt or silken tofu. You'll be amazed the amount of healthy junk you can cram into a smoothie — flaxseed, wheat germ, and even bitter vegetables — and still come up with something tasty as long as you include berries, kiwis, bananas, peeled carrots or any combination thereof.

Christopher Wanjek
Christopher Wanjek
Live Science Contributor

Christopher Wanjek is a Live Science contributor and a health and science writer. He is the author of three science books: Spacefarers (2020), Food at Work (2005) and Bad Medicine (2003). His "Food at Work" book and project, concerning workers' health, safety and productivity, was commissioned by the U.N.'s International Labor Organization. For Live Science, Christopher covers public health, nutrition and biology, and he has written extensively for The Washington Post and Sky & Telescope among others, as well as for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he was a senior writer. Christopher holds a Master of Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health and a degree in journalism from Temple University.