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Everything you need to know about anti-cancer foods into one handy book. Explains what cancer is and how antioxidants work to prevent pre-cancerous mutations in your body's cells, and then describes in detail which foods have been scientifically shown to help prevent which types of cancer.
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"Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble swallowing, sore mouth, unintentional weight loss,...
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"Get cooking and eat your way to better health with the latest edition of this popular cookbook. It includes more than 100 simple and delicious dishes that will turn healthy eating into a celebration of good food. It includes healthy substitutions, simple tips in the kitchen, smart shopping ideas, and notes on how to judge portion sizes. There is new material on how to shop in a healthy way, how to set up your pantry for healthy meals, and guidelines...
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Malnutrition is a frequent complication in patients with cancer and can negatively affect the outcome of treatments. Not only can cancer change the way the body uses food, but cancer and cancer treatments may, also, affect nutrition. With Stay healthy during chemo, Mike Herbert and Joseph Dispenza are here to help with this problem. Chemotherapy kills cancer cells (and other fast-growing and weak cells in the body, like hair). It doesn't make you...
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Quick and Healthy: 50 Simple Delicious Recipes for Everyday is a weeknight lifesaver, with fifty main courses that can be ready in thirty minutes or less with limited, easy-to-find ingredients. With recipes ranging from main-course salads, soups, and stews to sandwiches and more traditional mains, this new book will make getting a healthy dinner on the table a snap. With beautiful full-color photos throughout, these recipes will make your mouth water....
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An inspiring special edition published in partnership with Pink Together
General Mills's Pink Together initiative is a supportive online community that links 500,000 cancer survivors and their supporters, letting them share photos, personal stories, and recipes. Now, in partnership with Pink Together, this new edition of the Living with Cancer Cookbook has been updated and revised to include the inspirational stories of Pink Together community members.
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En estas últimas décadas el cáncer ha ido creciendo de forma espectacular en los países "desarrollados". Su incidencia va en aumento y se calcula que una de cada tres personas, nada menos, lo padecerá a lo largo de su vida. Muchos cánceres están causados directamente por la alimentación:
la basada en comida rápida y procesada, las grasas trans, los alimentos azucarados y refinados, etc. La buena noticia es que se conocen ya muchas de las...
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My husband and I raised our glasses and said yes to adventure, moving ourselves and our two very young children to the Mexican jungle. After a year there, I became deathly ill, so we returned to our family farm and cattle ranch outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where I embarked on my greatest quest. I went from being a clueless kitchen woman, having lived on only processed foods, to becoming a REAL FOOD master cook. I then began healing my body, shifting...
9) The Anti-Breast Cancer Cookbook: How To Cut Your Risk With The Most Powerful Cancer-Fighting Foods
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Dr. Julia Greer - cancer expert and author of The Anti-Cancer Cookbook - pulls together everything you need to know about breast cancer and shares more than 200 recipes made from common everyday ingredients chock-full of powerful antioxidants that may significantly slash your risk of developing breast cancer.
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"Surviving Leukemia and Hodgkin's Lymphoma" is a text that will give the reader a more than basic insight into the inner workings of both diseases. The author guides the reader through the various symptoms that come with each and the current methods that are used to diagnose the diseases. After that the various methods of treatment, both medical and alternative are expounded upon. It is a great support text for anyone that has any of these diseases...
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Neal Barnard, M.D.'s words: "Good nutrition has a surprising ability to help the body heal. In this book Jahnavi Sankhla invites you to put this healthful approach to work. Initially motivated to help her father recover from a serious condition, she learned how to prepare healthful foods that everyone will love fat-free tacos, nachos, pizza, and even donuts. This book includes uplifting, engaging stories and personal anecdotes to inspire you in your...
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This cookbook delves much further into the dark world of the politics surrounding cancer and the race for cure. With the rates of breast cancer increasing at a steady pace, the Breast Health and Healing Foundation is devoted to determining the causes of breast cancer and thereby developing effective preventive strategies against this disease. Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy, a breast cancer surgeon at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey, founded...
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Starve Cancer and Cook Your Way to a Healthy Lifestyle is a collection of recipes that I developed to help the millions of women living with breast cancer, like me. It focuses on removing alcohol, caffeine, canned products, dairy, red meat, or added sugar from your meals, while helping you in maintaining a delicious and balanced diet. However, this cookbook isnt just for people suffering from cancer. Its also beneficial for anyone who simple wants...
14) Everyday Meals For Invalids - A Collection of Tiny Recipes, Tasty and Nourishing, for Every Day i
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Originally published in 1934, this is a clear and practical guide to preparing food for ill and convalescing people. The book is full of useful recipes and practical advice. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
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The first title in Down East Books' 'Best Maine Food' series, this inspirational cookbook proves that good food fosters good health. When conventional medical treatments couldn't stop Meg Wolff's breast cancer in 1998, doctors told her to prepare her soul. Instead, she began a diet based on whole grains, vegetables and beans - and started getting better. Now vibrantly healthy, Meg is living proof that changing your diet can indeed save your life....
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Originally published in 1934, this is a clear and practical guide to preparing food for ill and convalescing people. The book is full of useful recipes and practical advice. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
17) Luchando Contra el Cáncer en la Cocina: Nutre tu Cuerpo con más de 120 Recetas Para Preparar Sopas
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Con recetas basadas en la ciencia, ricas en nutrientes, fáciles de preparar y diseñadas para dar a los pacientes un estímulo muy necesario, estimulando el apetito y abordando los efectos secundarios del tratamiento, como fatiga, náuseas, deshidratación, dolor de boca y garganta, cambios en las papilas gustativas y pérdida de peso. Una guía paso a paso ayuda a los pacientes a prepararse nutricionalmente para todas las fases del tratamiento,...
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REIMAGINE CANCER SUVIVAL
That's what cancer survivor Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he "accept the inevitable," but Roby thought otherwise.
Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor....
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Things You Should Know About Cancer
There are many different kinds of cell in the entire body, and many different kinds of cancer, which arise from different varieties of cell. Some cancers are extremely common and others are extremely rare. Patients receive a specific drug therapy and after that monitored to observe when a certain cancerous clone'' rises to dominance within the tumor as it has developed drug resistance. They are not cancerous and...
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One in eight women will develop breast cancer, and one in sixty-seven will develop ovarian cancer. These statistics serve as a reminder of the many mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and friends who have endured the words "You have cancer."
Colletta Orr knows firsthand the devastating effects of breast and ovarian cancers, having lost a grandmother and great-grandmother to both. Armed with years of research and the desire to understand and fight the...
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