Grammy®-award winner Sheryl Crow continues to add to her impressive music catalog with two new CDs this season, Home for Christmas and 100 Miles from Memphis, but the singer is venturing into Rachael's territory next March with her first cookbook! "It's called, If It Makes You Healthy, which is sort of a take on [my song] 'If It Makes You Happy,'" Sheryl explains. "My sister thought it should be called, If It Makes You Healthy, Why the Hell Are You So Fat? but we dropped that part off!"

Sheryl says that she got interested in cooking after she was diagnosed with breast cancer almost five years ago. "I learned a lot about nutrition because I wanted to be proactive in my cancer treatment," she says, "and part of that meant for me, aside from getting the Western treatment which was a lumpectomy and radiation, was to know more about what I put into my body. All the vitamins and supplements that we take, the best way to get those vitamins and minerals are through food, through the actual food itself, as opposed to supplements. Supplements are great and everything but everything that we need is in the most colorful vegetables we eat."

A related project that Sheryl is proud of is Pink Lotus, a cancer imaging center that started with her surgical oncologist Kristi Funk. She explains, "I call it one-stop shopping where you can go and you can be examined and diagnosed, and if something should show up in your pathology, your pathology is read right on the spot. We have at the same time a non-profit that’s going to at least allow women who are not insured to not be afraid to be diagnosed and they’ll be covered through the help of corporations."

Sheryl continues, "In this day and age, until we have a cure, obviously early detection is the best that we have and I would like to see this get to a point where women don’t die of it and also get to a point where women aren’t afraid to get their mammography because knowledge is power."

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