A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information & Inspiration for Recovery & Healing from a 3-Time Cancer Survivor [Paperback]

Diana Dyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2000

The author describes her "integrated" approach to a successful recovery from her most recent cancer diagnosis. Her approach combines conventional cancer therapy with significant nutritional changes and other healing methods from complementary medicine. The book also includes a helpful annotated resource list for cancer patients. The newest 5th edition has been expanded to include an extensive chapter on "Dining Out and Maintaining Your Anti-Cancer Diet" along with other updated information.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The 4th edition of A Dietitian's Cancer Story's forty pages are crammed with informative and useful recommendations for developing a healthy diet that can also reduce the risk of cancer. This is an ideal book for anybody wanting to start "eating right", but who has no idea where to begin. Dyer provides specific diet recommendations such as the amount of fat and fiber to include daily and then gives information on how to achieve these goals with sample menus, realistic suggestions for incorporating nontraditional foods and ways to integrate the diet into family meals. She even provides a grocery list of healthy items to stock, of which most are available at regular grocery stores. -- OncoLink, July 25 1998

This book is arguably one of the best distillations of useful information I have seen pertaining to healthful approaches for individuals with cancer. -- David Eisenberg, MD - Director, Center for Alternative Medicine and Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

From the Publisher

The first four editions of this book sold out very quickly. The most recent 5th edition has new information (including a full chapter on maintaining a healthy diet while eating away from home) and larger print, which is much easier to read. People from 49 states and 12 foreign countries have already ordered this popular book. It is common for a reader to order one copy and then soon order several more to give to friends, relatives, and members of support groups. Additionally, many cancer centers, churches, and health care professionals of various specialties who work extensively with cancer patients have ordered this book in bulk to give to their patients. (Please call 734/996-9260 or E-mail [e-mail] for bulk ordering rates.)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: Swan Pr (September 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966723813
• ISBN-13: 978-0966723816
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,204,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Excellent " Book on Nutrition & Cancer, May 20, 2001

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Dianne "Dianne" (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information & Inspiration for Recovery & Healing from a 3-Time Cancer Survivor (Paperback)

WOW!! This impressive book is for the person who desires to "optimize" their own health. Diana, a Registered Dietitian, and survivor of THREE episodes of cancer herself, discusses the on-going and evolving state of nutrition research and how she uses that information to determine her own "optimal diet" to treat/prevent cancer recurrence. She discloses how she has implemented good nutrition and complementary therapies into her everyday life. She shares her own recipes, serving sizes, sample menus, tips for eating 9+ servings of fruits and vegetables, recipe book sources, her own personal grocery list, dining-out tips, and newsletter, book & internet resource listings. Don't pass up this great help-yourself book!

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diana Dyer is a Good Teacher, July 13, 2000

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Patricia J. Anderson (Fort Riley, KS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information & Inspiration for Recovery & Healing from a 3-Time Cancer Survivor (Paperback)

This would be a very helpful book for anyone who wants to improve her or his nutrition, regardless of whether they have cancer or not. The author starts out by teaching the reader how to have a well balanced diet - information everyone needs to know. One of the things I like best about the book is that she acknowledges that research on nutrition and cancer is incomplete, but then goes on to discuss how to include foods that have been shown to be possibly helpful in preventing cancer. The book is packed with useful information and helpful hints to make the dietary changes easier and more enjoyable. Reviewed by Patricia J. Anderson, MN, RN, Editor: Breast Cancer News, Author, Breast Cancer: A Patient Guide

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is so helpful that I volunteered to translate it!, November 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information & Inspiration for Recovery & Healing from a 3-Time Cancer Survivor (Paperback)

When I started reading A Dietitian's Cancer Story, I found it so interesting, well written, and practical that I could not stop until I had finished. Then I thought, what a wonderful information resource from which many people around the world could benefit. It has been a pleasure for me to translate A Dietitian's Cancer Story into Spanish (Historia De Cancer De Una Dietista) which is also now available on Amazon.com. I admire Diana Dyer as a nutrition professional and also as a patient who has gone through a lot to be where she is now: helping many people. The field of cancer and nutrition has been enriched with the book A Dietitian's Cancer Story.