What to Eat if You Have Cancer (revised): Healing Foods that Boost Your Immune System [Paperback]

Keane, a nutritionist, cancer survivor, and coauthor of the best-selling Juicing for Life (Avery, 1992), and Chase, a natural-health writer and nutrition educator, describe the body's physical components and how nutrition affects physical function. They then present types of cancers and detail how the cancers insinuate themselves into body structures. The authors' proposed nutritional therapy is designed to deny cancer the food elements it requires for growth while strengthening the body against the disease and the rigors of its treatments. Recommendations are made for nutritional supplements, food preparation, and managing the side effects of treatment. Specific diets for overweight and underweight individuals and those on chemotherapy and radiation therapy are also incorporated. Although the book is complex in subject, the authors present excellent analogies and information. Their clearly written book goes beyond Eileen Behan's Cooking Well for the Unwell and Rachel Keim and Ginny Smith's What To Eat Now: The Cancer Lifeline Cookbook (both in LJ 5/1/96) in nutritional information but doesn't include the recipes and specific diets contained in those titles. An excellent complement to either work.?Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Fuel your body to fight cancer

Cancer and cancer treatment take a toll on your body, but you can help make cancer treatment more effective and reduce its unpleasant side effects with good nutrition. What to Eat if You Have Cancer presents the best foods to fight cancer and suggests ways to keep your body strong--knowledge you need to take control of your health.

A vital resource for cancer patients, this revised edition contains new recipes, new menus, and the latest research on cancer and nutrition.

With the help of What to Eat if You Have Cancer, you will learn

• The foods to eat and the foods to avoid in your fight with cancer
• The proper use of supplements in nutrition therapy
• How to create personalized meal plans to complement different types and phases of treatment

Fuel your body to fight cancer

Cancer and cancer treatment take a toll on your body, but you can help make cancer treatment more effective and reduce its unpleasant side effects with good nutrition. What to Eat if You Have Cancer presents the best foods to fight cancer and suggests ways to keep your body strong--knowledge you need to take control of your health.

A vital resource for cancer patients, this revised edition contains new recipes, new menus, and the latest research on cancer and nutrition.

With the help of What to Eat if You Have Cancer, you will learn

• The foods to eat and the foods to avoid in your fight with cancer
• The proper use of supplements in nutrition therapy
• How to create personalized meal plans to complement different types and phases of treatment

Maureen Keane, M.S., C.N., is a certified nutritionist and a cancer-treatment survivor. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the author of more than thirteen books on health and nutrition.

Daniella Chace, M.S., C.N., is a medical nutrition author, whole foods expert, and the author of more than 20 books on nutrition. Her columns appear monthly in Women and Cancer magazine and through cancerconsultants.com and the American Cancer Society online.