The Survivor's Handbook: Eating Right for Cancer Survival - Softcover

Barnard, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976191903 ISBN 13: 9780976191902

Publisher: The Cancer Project, 2004

Synopsis

Researchers have been investigating how food choices can help prevent cancer and, when cancer has been diagnosed, how they can improve survival. The findings are nothing short of dramatic. Certain diet patterns seem to have a major effect, helping people diagnosed with cancer to live longer, healthier lives. Eating well is a simple and delicious way to put yourself on the road to good health.

This groundbreaking new book will provide you with empowering information on how simple, everyday choices can cause major changes in your health and well being. Written by best-selling author Neal Barnard, M.D., The Survivor's Handbook provides comprehensive information you can put to work right now. Subjects include: Fueling Up on Low-Fat Foods; Favoring Fiber; Discovering Dairy Alternatives; Replacing Meat; Planning Healthy Meals; Antioxidants and Phytochemicals; Immune Boosting Foods; Maintaining a healthy Weight; Foods and Breast Cancer Survival; Foods and Prostate Cancer Survival; PLUS over 60 pages of delicious easy-to-prepare recipes!

About this title

About the Author

Neal Barnard, M.D., is a nutrition researcher, an author, and the founder and president of The Cancer Project, an organization that works to advance cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research. The Cancer Project started as a program of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in 1991 and became an incorporated affiliate of PCRM in 2004 to better focus efforts on educating the public about diet’s role in cancer prevention and survival. Dr. Barnard founded PCRM in 1985, and it has evolved into a nationwide nationwide organization of physicians and laypersons that promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition, and addresses controversies in modern medicine, including ethical issues in research.

As president of both PCRM and The Cancer Project, Dr. Barnard directs numerous innovative programs to promote healthy eating. Research has shown that people following vegetarian diets are up to 40 percent less likely to develop cancer than meat-eaters, and Dr. Barnard works to educate the public on how a plant-based diet can play a key role in cancer prevention and survival. He has also conducted numerous studies of the ability of nutritional interventions to treat high cholesterol levels, hormone imbalances, diabetes, and other conditions, and has published groundbreaking findings in journals such as The American Journal of Cardiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Preventive Medicine. One recent study, for example, shows how a low-fat vegan diet helps diabetes patients reduce and even eliminate their need for medication.

Dr. Barnard has been instrumental in reforming federal dietary guidelines. In his published reports, he has shown how meat-based diets not only cause health problems, but also are responsible for up to $60 billion every year in health care costs.

Dr. Barnard’s interest in healthy eating evolved over many years. His family includes both doctors and cattle ranchers—two groups that often butt heads over health issues. Before going to medical school, Dr. Barnard worked as an autopsy assistant, where he observed heart disease and other deadly effects of a bad diet firsthand.

Dr. Barnard is the author of seven books, including Breaking the Food Seduction, Food for Life, and Eat Right, Live Longer. He is also the editor-in-chief of Good Medicine and the author of hundreds of articles in magazines such as Scientific American and newspapers such as The New York Times. A regular guest on network talk and news shows and a busy public speaker, Dr. Barnard lives in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Barnard is also an adjunct associate professor of medicine at George Washington University.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Cancer Project
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976191903
• ISBN 13: 9780976191902
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 148