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Cooking with Foods That Fight Cancer

Richard Beliveau, Denis Gingras

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Wonderful Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This is a wonderful book full of useful and authoritative information as well as excellent recipes that are easy and not too time consuming.

After I heard an interview with the authors on CBC Radio, I just had to have this book. I went out and bought it that same day. Now I am giving it for
Christmas. The format of this book, with its shiny pages and great pictures makes it a book that can be a coffee table presentable book.

All in all a beautiful presentation with solid content.

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From the bestselling authors of Foods That Fight Cancer comes the companion cookbook.

Foods That Fight Cancer has sold more than 180,000 copies across Canada and has kick-started a revolution in our understanding of the cancer-fighting properties of food. Now we know of the health properties of green tea, dark chocolate, and red wine, but how do we learn to incorporate these foods into our daily diet? Anticipating this dilemma, authors Richard Béliveau and Denis Gingras have teamed up with professional chefs to create Cooking with Foods that Fight Cancer.

Featuring 160 specially created, delicious recipes — including Cuban Black Bean Soup, Scallop and Strawberry Rosettes, Maghreb Couscous, Sweet Chestnut Brownies — and packed with information on the latest research developments in the field, this gorgeous, full-colour cookbook is the essential companion to the first bestselling volume.

The Taste for Living Cookbook: Mike Milken's Favorite Recipes for Fighting Cancer

Beth Ginsberg, Michael Milken

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great for those who are lactose intolerant 4 out of 5 stars.
18 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I purchased this book because it contained recipes like flan that didn't require any dairy products. It also provides some great tips for substituting out ingredients like cream and other milk products without sacrificing texture and taste.

At first, I was a bit concerned that most of the recipes in the book called for ingredients that I had never heard of, but even the small health-food section of my local grocery store had almost everything that I needed.

Good Stuff 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful.

The book presents recipes attractively. I've tried a few and they were easier and better than I expected, given the somewhat unusual ingredients for familiar foods. The book goes astray, to some degree, in my opinion, because it works too hard at recreating unhealthy high fat foods with low-fat, high-soy, equivalents. Better to just present vegetarian recipees that don't try to seem like something else.

Editorial Review:

Part of the outreach efforts of CaP CURE, Michael Milken's not-for-profit group dedicated to fighting prostate cancer, "The Taste for Living" offers a guide to identifying the foods known to help fight cancer, presenting ways to eat more of them--without sacrificing taste. 70+ recipes.

Eat to Beat Prostate Cancer Cookbook

David Ricketts

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Prostate cancer is now the most common nonskin cancer among men in the United States. In 2005 alone, 250,000 new cases were diagnosed, and that number is certain to rise with each passing year. No one is more aware of this than David Ricketts, experienced cookbook author and recent prostate cancer survivor.

Shortly after surgery and radiation treatments, Ricketts began to research food and lifestyle changes that might inhibit the likelihood of prostate cancer as well as its progression. The result is this uniquely specific cookbook, which takes full advantage of foods thought to fight prostate cancer while eliminating those believed to contribute to the disease. Eat to Beat Prostate Cancer Cookbook features more than 200 delicious recipes for everything from snacks, sandwiches, and drinks to main-course dishes-all foods that will appeal to the entire family. This tremendously useful book also benefits from the author's firsthand experience, as he offers insight into what to expect regarding diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, as well as practical advice for making the transition to healthier cooking, smarter eating, and a longer life.

The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook, Second Edition

Kathy Steligo

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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The best-selling guide to mastectomy and reconstruction has been rewritten and updated. This new 2nd edition of The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook retains all the comprehensive information, descriptions ad explanation of the original issue, along with new information about the lattest implant and flap reconstruction procedures, how to find a surgeon who specializes in these newer techniques and much more. No woman wants to lose her breasts. But having a mastectomy doesn't have to mean living without them. How do you find answers about mastectomy and reconstruction when you're still overwhelmed by your diagnosis and treatment? How real will your new breasts look and feel? What if you don't want implants? How painful is the process? Will your insurance cover all the costs? What is recovery like? The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook has the answers. Easy-to-read text explains mastectomy and demystifies reconstructive options. You'll understand the benefits and risks of different procedures, so you can determine which technique, if any, is right for you. You won't be alone; each chapter includes insights from women who have been through it all.

Dr. Katz's Guide to Prostate Health: From Conventional to Holistic Therapies

Aaron E. Katz

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Prostate Guide 5 stars 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Dr. Katz's gives the reader a complete picture of the prostate function and conditions that develope. He gives you a complete guide to actions in both Conventional and Holistic treatment. I have read a few books on the subject Dr. Katz's book is the most complete that I have read. As a layman trying to take care of my prostate I highly recommend his book.This books belongs in everyman's library at age 30 and over..

Prostate Health for Today's Man. 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I wanted the most current, practical, and accurate information available for prostate health written in an easy style, but with thorough information. I found it in Dr. Katz'a book. It is written in a positive style from a complimentary medicine viewpoint, and so includes all genuine sources of maintaining prostate health from conventional medicine to the best of natural health aids. I find it the perfect prostate health guide for today's man. I value it.

Editorial Review:

For the first time, a leading expert in the field of prostate health shows men how to markedly reduce their risk not only of prostate cancer—but also enlarged prostate and prostatitis. Equally important, Dr. Katz shows men the best treatment protocols for these conditions. He also describes breakthrough clinical trials with a proprietary herbal formula that reverses precancerous prostate conditions known as PIN. No man today, or the woman who loves him, can afford not to be without this important, easytoread, breakthrough book.

Five Lessons I Didn't Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)

Shelley Lewis

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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An irreverent, funny, compassionate look at what having breast cancer means—and what it doesn’t.

From the pink ribbons to the websites that sell related accessories and stuffed animals, breast cancer has morphed from a disease to an experience. And at every step of the way, society tells women that this experience can teach them profound lessons and maybe even give them a peek at the meaning of life.

But what if it doesn’t?

Before Shelley Lewis got breast cancer she was a smart, edgy network producer. After the long month of treatment ended, she was still a smart, edgy network producer. The cancer was gone but in its place there was no epiphany, no new perspective on life. Lewis found that for herself and other women, breast cancer was many things, but it was not necessarily an opportunity for self-improvement. It didn’t teach them lessons, but surviving it did draw on hard-won life lessons they’d already learned.

A wonderful interweaving of the author’s personal story, interviews with breast cancer survivors, and a sharp-eyed journalist’s look at the breast cancer “community,” this book is full of unconventional wisdom, unexpected advice, and hilarious observations about life inside the pink bubble.

One Last Wish: Three Novels (Mother, Help Me Live / Let Him Live / Sixteen and Dying)

Lurlene McDaniel

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You don't know me, but I know about you.... I can't make you live longer, I can stop you form hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.
Three letters. Three last wishes.
In Mother, Help Me Live, Sarah discovers that her birth mother, whom she's never known, is the one person who may have the bone marrow she needs to survive. When Sarah journeys to find her mother, she learns the real meaning of family.
Let Him Live tells the story of Megan's friendship with Donovan, who is hoping to receive a liver transplant. Megan helps make Donovan's wish for his mother and little brother come true, along the way, Megan comes to understand true giving.
In Sixteen and Dying, when Anne finds out that a blood transfusion she had seven years ago has made her future uncertain, being given one wish helps her face her pain. She chooses to spend the summer with her father on a ranch out west—and there she meets someone who will change her life.

The Natural Prostate Cure

Roger Mason

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Wrong half the time 2 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

This book is rich in useful facts, errors, and misguided opinions. If you have the technical expertise to separate out the "chaff from the grain", then you probably don't need this book. Useful facts include: prostate cancer is preventable and better treatable without castration or prostatectomy, diet plays a major role in the health of the prostate gland, testosterone is not the enemy in prostate cancer but rather the imbalance between estrogens and testosterone in the aging male.

Errors in the book include: lycopenes from tomatoes are useless for prostate health (p.17). The Mediterranean lifestyle, which incorporates abundant tomatoes, has been shown to help prevent prostate problems. Since Mr. Mason has no formal training in a health related field, he is overly confident in his opinions, like calling the Harvard study in a major peer reviewed journal showing the value of tomatoes in reducing the incidence of prostate cancer "asinine" and "paid advertisements". Another error is that flax oil is a reasonable substitute for fish oil in prostate health. In fact, flax oil is inefficiently converted to fish oil (EPA) in the human body. He says that you must cut fat in the diet to 10% of calories. Meanwhile, both Eskimos and Mediterranean people consume a diet of 60% fat and 30% fat respectively without any significant prostate disease. Mr. Mason tells us to stay away from nightshade vegetables, like potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. Which is very disconcerting for the Inca civilization, the largest and most advanced civilization in the pre-Columbian Americas for 300 years, where potatoes are the staple of the diet. The descendents of the Incas today still live actively into their 80s off of nothing but potatoes. Mr. Mason cautions us to never take more than 250 milligrams per day of vitamin C (p.13). Which would make a fruit smoothie toxic and the thousands of doctors who inject up to 100,000 mg of vitamin C to help sick patients all wrong.

While conventional therapy for prostate cancer may be hazardous to your health, this book is wrong at least half of the time. For the sheer entertainment value of how opinionated an uninformed lay person can be, this book is worth the read.

Editorial Review:

This book is the most completely researched book on natural prostate health. It gives you an effective alternative to the usual medical approach of surgery, radion and toxic drugs. Facts elaborate on include medical treatments for BPH often leave men in diapers unable to ever have sex again. Cure yourself of prostate problems safely, effectivelyl andnaturally based on clinical research. You don't have to resort to life threatening surgery, radiation or dangerous drugs.

Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

Meredith Norton

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A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrong’s cancer survival book pressed on her by well-meaning family and friends.

Alongside the harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories from her offbeat life. We see her childhood time during a somewhat racist ski trip, a family reunion at a Florida alligator farm, and her life in a tree house with a neighbor, who, despite being vegan, hates mice enough to taxidermy them into miniature versions of racecar drivers, Jesus, a UPS delivery man, and Sally Jesse Raphael.

Like David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Norton’s razor-sharp wit is at once riotous and excruciating. Lopsided is the remarkable debut of a masterful humorist.

A Primer on Prostate Cancer: The Empowered Patient's Guide

Stephen Strum, Donna L. Pogliano

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¡§A Primer on Prostate Cancer, The Empowered Patient¡¦s Guide¡¨ is a basic resource to be used by patients and physicians when there has been a diagnosis of prostate cancer. It outlines a strategy of disease management that is designed to maximize outcomes for the patient and his loved ones. All aspects of diagnosis and testing are discussed; all currently approved treatments for prostate cancer are described. Discussion of treatment options includes information on side effects and includes questions the patient may not think to ask his doctor. Discussions of various treatments include the salvage therapies that might be employed if primary treatment fails. There is an extensive section on the theory and practice of androgen deprivation therapy in it¡¦s various forms, since many patients have need of this type of information. There is a discussion of ¡§Treatments on the Horizon¡¨ for the patient who is interested in the ongoing research in the world of prostate cancer. This is a current, comprehensive guide to prostate cancer presented in understandable terms with a user-friendly color format that will help the reader educate himself about prostate cancer. The book strives to help patients and their loved ones to combat ignorance and fear, replacing that with the empowerment of education.