The CANCER SURVIVOR'S Guide

Foods that help you fight back!

by Neal D Barnard, MD and Jennifer K Reilly, RD

New softcover book, 248 pages, published 2008.

Dr. Neal Barnard explains how nutrition can play a key role in overcoming cancer. Readers learn how foods influence hormones that fuel cancer and how a dietary change to a low-fat, plant-based diet can be beneficial to anyone diagnosed with cancer. Each section describes: specific nutrients and how they work in your body; which foods are the best sources; recommended recipes; and simple, practical steps to take to increase consumption of these foods. Also included is a question and answer section that covers many concerns related to cancer, plant-based diets, nutrient absorption, food safety, and more.

The Cancer Survivor's Guide provides comprehensive advice you can put to work right now. You'll have empowering information on how simple, everyday choices can improve your health and well-being:

• The science behind how a plant-based diet provides cancer-fighting compounds and immune-boosting nutrients that cells need to be healthy
• More than 130 delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes
• A comprehensive list of references and resources for further information on diet and cancer

The Cancer Survivor's Guide is a part of The Cancer Project's Food For Life nutrient education program. The Cancer Project is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to cancer prevention and survival through nutrition, research of cancer causes, education and advocacy.

About the authors

Neal Barnard, MD is a nutrition researcher and founder of The Cancer Project. Dr Barmard is also the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which promotes preventice medicine, especially good nutrition, and addresses controversies in modern medicine, including ethical issues in research. Dr Barnard is an adjunct assocoate professor of medicine at George Washington University and author of Dr Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes, Breaking the Food Seduction and Foods That Fight Pain as well as dozens of articles for scientific and medical journals.

Jennifer K Reilly, RD, is a senior dietitian with The Cancer Project. She has also designed nutritional care plans for oncology patients at both the Department of Veterans Administration Medical Centre and Northwest Health Care Centre in Washington DC.

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The Cancer Survivor's Guide by Neal Barnard and Jennifer Reilly