The Breast Health Cookbook or Confronting Cancer

The Breast Health Cookbook: Fast and Simple Recipes to Reduce the Risk of Cancer

Author: Bob Arnot

In the late 1990s Dr. Bob Arnot's The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet stirred controversy as it broke new ground in revealing the links between breast cancer and nutrition. Today there is a consensus among scientists and clinicians that diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors when it comes to reducing the risk of breast cancer.

Focusing on foods and supplements that have been proven to act against cancer, this companion volume to The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet uses these healthful ingredients to create 172 New Mouthwatering, Easy-to-Prepare Recipes.

The book features a complete healthy-eating program -- breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert -- with menus encompassing Asian, Mediterranean, and New American flavors. Tips throughout on converting recipes to help fight prostate cancer allow men and women to support each other in their battle to reduce the risk of cancer.

Publishers Weekly

Having researched cancer-preventative foods, Dr. Arnot was disappointed when women seemed uninterested in his recommendations. He has since learned "the three most important criteria" for healthy meals: "Taste, taste, taste." In this companion volume to the bestselling The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Arnot offers an array of recipes featuring the foods most likely to help people avoid breast cancer (and prostate cancer as well). With more than 150 recipes from nutritionists Rita Mitchell and Barbara Sutherland, the book is structured around ethnic categories of diet Asian, New American, Mediterranean along with suggested meals. Recipes are provided for main courses, sandwiches, soups, desserts and more. The recipes frequently involve soy products, which Arnot believes are key for preventing cancer. The quality and inventiveness of the recipes is uneven. There are, for example, healthier but not particularly original versions of minestrone soup and macaroni and cheese. Some recipes Goat Cheese with Melon may be appealing, but aren't specifically anti-cancer fare. Most interesting is the dessert chapter, which offers a number of enticing treats including a Cheese Tart and Ginger Yogurt. Overall, the recipes are not unique or superior to those found in many other low-fat or "healthier" cookbooks. But facts like "women in the Far East have 90 percent less breast cancer than American women" will grab the reader's attention. And given Arnot's visibility as chief medical correspondent for NBC News, early sales are likely to be brisk. National television and radio interview campaign. (Oct. 3) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Part I7
	How Foods May Help Protect You from Breast Cancer	9
	The Menu Plans	24
Part II	Recipes	45
	Breakfast	47
	Soups and Stews	88
	Sandwiches	111
	Main Courses	120
	Main-Dish Salads	166
	Side Dishes--Grains and Legumes	178
	Side Dishes--Vegetables	192
	Side Salads	200
	Desserts	221
	Index	253

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Confronting Cancer: How to Care for Today and Tomorrow

Author: M M M Sherry

From the moment of diagnosis, the cancer patient embarks on a journey that can prove both daunting and overwhelming. Fears and choices abound, along with the need to understand the nature and ramifications of the specific illness. Having witnessed this devastating predicament among countless patients in his own extensive practice as a cancer specialist, Dr. Michael Sherry felt compelled to write a lucid and comprehensive cancer handbook for patients and their families coping with the daily reality of the disease. Confronting Cancer: How to Care for Today and Tomorrow is a practical and readily understandable resource book that interprets the complexities of cancer for the layperson. In order to guide the patient and caregiver through the successive phases of the disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and day-to-day living, Dr. Sherry has carefully organized the book into three parts: Part One emphasizes the distinctive nature of specific cancers (such as breast, lung, skin, and colon) and explains the basic rationale for treatment; Part Two discusses orthodox and unorthodox therapies; and Part Three details common problems encountered by the patient (including getting a second opinion, frequent symptoms, and pain control). The author also includes vital information on the nature and treatment of less familiar cancers affecting bladder and kidney function, the testicular area, and "unknown primary organ." While the vast majority of the over one million cancer patients in the United States receive technically sophisticated treatments, most patients are bewildered by the intricacies of the treatment process. Confronting Cancer clearly explains major cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, bone marrow transplantation, investigational therapy, "no therapy," and the dangers of cancer quackery. Through the gripping experiences of 54 patients, Dr. Sherry offers the reader important trouble-shooting advice on such issues as pain control, financi