Eating For Better Health: Help Fight and Prevent Many Common Health Problems Through Diet [Paperback]

Prof. Jane Plant (Author), Gill Tidey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2005

Help fight and prevent many common health problems through diet. Following the internationally bestselling book on breast cancer, Your Life in Your Hands, Professor Plant - one of Britain's top scientists - has expanded the principles of the diet to look at other specific and general illnesses. This is accompanied by recipes to help these conditions. An essential book for general wellbeing and everyday good health. Including: allergies, blood disorders, digestive tract disorders, heart disease, cancers, diabetes, lung diseases, menopausal symptoms, neurological disorders, skeletal and muscular disorders and skin problems.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Amazing...Her message is one that every woman must read" -- Daily Mail

"Could change the way you view food forever" -- Woman's Health

"This book could - quite literally - save your life" -- Sunday People

Ground-breaking -- Irish Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Professor Jane Plant CBE is one of Britain's preeminent scientists sitting on many influential government and international committees, and Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey. Gill Tidey is Director of the Nottingham Energy Partnership. Both manage high-level careers, look after their families and homes, and entertain, and are therefore aware of the complexities and stresses of modern day life, but both know it is easy to create meals that minimise the risks to health inherent in modern dairy and convenience-food-rich diets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Virgin Books (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753509075
• ISBN-13: 978-0753509074
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book I can't LIVE without!, May 25, 2008

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G. Hardy "George Hardy" (Tyneside, England.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast & Prostate Cancer (Paperback)

It is 3 years since I bought this book,in April 2005, soon after being diagnosed with the most serious staging of prostate cancer. I had only just celebrated my 54th birthday and here was I being told that the prognosis was very, very bleak. I then bought and read Jane Plant's own inspiring story of her fight against breast cancer in her book "Your life In Your Hands", and I became convinced of the wisdom of her words and her successful strategy in the battle against such devastating illness.The first step in my fightback was to completely change my diet, and to do this I needed a guide to help me through the planning of all my daily meals. Never having been on any type of diet before, I was at a loss as to where to start, what to buy, what to avoid, and how to prepare and to cook the foods I would now need.This simple, well written book was my guiding light, my very own cookery 'bible. To this day it sits proudly on my kitchen shelf, now very well thumbed through and extrememly well worn.I could never have managed to stay on the path to recovery without it.And a recovery it has indeed been. Only last week, on 15th May 2008, my oncologist gave me my latest blood test results and told me how amazed and delighted he was that I had come through all the hormone treatment and radiotherapy so exceptionally well, and that after having stopped all medication 6 months ahead of schedule, my results were startling.I have a normal PSA level and my testosterone is equivalent to that of a healthy, younger man.I cannot praise this book highly enough, and I have waited three years to write this review, now being totally sure that buying it was one of the best decisions of my life.Thank you Prof Jane Plant. It worked for you, and you were magnanimous enough to write these books and to spread this message of hope to other cancer sufferers....and I am sure that there must be many others now in the world who are feeling as I do today....so very glad to be alive!

George Hardy,

England

25th May 2008

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must have for all interesting in healthy living, January 9, 2008

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John O'Donovan "Mairéad" (Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eating For Better Health: Help Fight and Prevent Many Common Health Problems Through Diet (Paperback)

I found this book easy to read and most informative. The recipes are excellent - uncomplicated and very well researched

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't what I expected., June 6, 2009

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C. Zimmerman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast Cancer-Healthy, Non-Dairy Living for Everyone (Paperback)

I have Jane A. Plant's copy of "Your Life in Your Hands" and was expecting this book to be vegan, but it's got recipes with meat in it. Just wanted to post this FYI for anyone else out there that may have been like me. I much prefer "Your Life In Your Hands." This books is nothing but a cook book.