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Nutrionist Maureen Keane is the best-selling author of Juicing for Life, What to Eat if You Have Cancer, and a dozen other premier health titles. A former student and instructor at Baystr University, she is a licensed nutrionist and a respected member of the Society for Nutrition Education. Ms. Keane lives in the Seattle area.
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Who is Maureen? I'm a nutritionist, a writer, an Irish dance teacher, and a cancer treatment survivor. I am member of the American Dietetic Association and Dieticians in Integrative and Functional Medicine. I received my BS in biology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and my masters degree in nutrition from Bastyr University in Redmond, Washington. Bastyr offers programs in science-based natural medicine so it was a good fit for me.
After graduation a classmate and I decided to write a book on juicing -Juicing for Life -and it became a best seller. Thirteen more books followed and I haven't stopped.
I was born in Detroit, Michigan but my mother was born in Ireland so she had me start Irish dance lessons when I was eight. Eventually I went on to qualify for both my T.C.R.G (teacher's certification) and A.D.C.R.G (adjudicator's certification) from An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha -the Irish Dance Commission- in Dublin, Ireland. Irish dance became a passion and I taught for more than twenty years, first in Michigan and then Washington State. Today I am still associated with the Grafton Street Dancers in Seattle, Washington.
Although my husband can't dance he is the honorary Irish Consul for Washington State. Our son works for the Government in the "other" Washington. We've been catless for almost 3 years now and I'm looking for another Maine Coon to replace Maeve who died Christmas Eve, 2009. Maeve used to help me write my books. She sampled recipes, tossed ingredients on the floor to play with and supervised the writing from her place next to the computer.
My husband and I moved to Seattle, Washington in 1978 and I became a full time mom who taught Irish dance part time. In 1980 I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after a miscarriage and sent to a gynecologic oncologist at the University of Washington Medical Center. I underwent 4 courses of chemotherapy which blood tests indicated did not work. The oncologist was brutally blunt: have surgery or die. Being alive to raise the child I had was more important than any future children I might have, so I had one more course of chemo and then the hysterectomy.
Long story made short: The test used to diagnose the cancer had given a false positive and the precancerous condition I did have had never progressed to cancer. Our attorney said we had no case. But in 1997, the gynecologic oncologist who treated me faced multiple lawsuits from women for doing to them what he did decades earlier to me. The first was awarded 18 million. He continued to practice and I continued to wish I'd had a better attorney!
However, I never really recovered from the chemo. Within 3 years I was so short of breath I could no longer do the warm up exercises with my dancers. Eventually the pain and fatigue made it impossible to continue teaching so I closed my school and went back to college.
But my symptoms got worse. In 1992 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. In 1996 I was back at the UW, this time in heart failure due to advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension which was almost always fatal back then. I could barely walk or even breath and went through the transplant workup hoping to get approved for a new lung. Then a miracle. The first drug to treat PAH was approved and I was hooked up to the portable pump that fed the drug directly into my heart 24/7. I had an outstanding reaction to the drug. Six years later I was weaned off of it and onto a newly developed oral medication. I'm symptom free except for the fibromyalgia which continues to limit my outside activities.
When I had my chemotherapy no one mentioned nutrition to me. I sincerely believe that a better diet and nutritional supplements might have prevented some of the problems I later developed but I didn't know better then. That was why I wrote the books on nutrition and cancer (I recently rewrote both the Cancer and Diabetes books to update their contents). Nutrition is not going to cure you of cancer or any other chronic condition but it can help make the treatment more effective, help slow the progress of the disease, or reduce side effects. It is the single most powerful thing you can do to help yourself and become a proactive patient.
Fibromyalgia is a disorder that rarely travels alone. My "companion" disorders include restless leg syndrome, migraines and the sicca complex (dry eyes and mouth) with achalasia and osteoarthritis thrown into the mix. I understand what it is like to suffer from chronic disorders so I can appreciate all the challenges faced by many of my readers. That is why I continue to write.
This year I am entering the eBook market with several books that will only be available in this format. Look for the first this winter.
After graduation a classmate and I decided to write a book on juicing -Juicing for Life -and it became a best seller. Thirteen more books followed and I haven't stopped.
I was born in Detroit, Michigan but my mother was born in Ireland so she had me start Irish dance lessons when I was eight. Eventually I went on to qualify for both my T.C.R.G (teacher's certification) and A.D.C.R.G (adjudicator's certification) from An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha -the Irish Dance Commission- in Dublin, Ireland. Irish dance became a passion and I taught for more than twenty years, first in Michigan and then Washington State. Today I am still associated with the Grafton Street Dancers in Seattle, Washington.
Although my husband can't dance he is the honorary Irish Consul for Washington State. Our son works for the Government in the "other" Washington. We've been catless for almost 3 years now and I'm looking for another Maine Coon to replace Maeve who died Christmas Eve, 2009. Maeve used to help me write my books. She sampled recipes, tossed ingredients on the floor to play with and supervised the writing from her place next to the computer.
My husband and I moved to Seattle, Washington in 1978 and I became a full time mom who taught Irish dance part time. In 1980 I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after a miscarriage and sent to a gynecologic oncologist at the University of Washington Medical Center. I underwent 4 courses of chemotherapy which blood tests indicated did not work. The oncologist was brutally blunt: have surgery or die. Being alive to raise the child I had was more important than any future children I might have, so I had one more course of chemo and then the hysterectomy.
Long story made short: The test used to diagnose the cancer had given a false positive and the precancerous condition I did have had never progressed to cancer. Our attorney said we had no case. But in 1997, the gynecologic oncologist who treated me faced multiple lawsuits from women for doing to them what he did decades earlier to me. The first was awarded 18 million. He continued to practice and I continued to wish I'd had a better attorney!
However, I never really recovered from the chemo. Within 3 years I was so short of breath I could no longer do the warm up exercises with my dancers. Eventually the pain and fatigue made it impossible to continue teaching so I closed my school and went back to college.
But my symptoms got worse. In 1992 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. In 1996 I was back at the UW, this time in heart failure due to advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension which was almost always fatal back then. I could barely walk or even breath and went through the transplant workup hoping to get approved for a new lung. Then a miracle. The first drug to treat PAH was approved and I was hooked up to the portable pump that fed the drug directly into my heart 24/7. I had an outstanding reaction to the drug. Six years later I was weaned off of it and onto a newly developed oral medication. I'm symptom free except for the fibromyalgia which continues to limit my outside activities.
When I had my chemotherapy no one mentioned nutrition to me. I sincerely believe that a better diet and nutritional supplements might have prevented some of the problems I later developed but I didn't know better then. That was why I wrote the books on nutrition and cancer (I recently rewrote both the Cancer and Diabetes books to update their contents). Nutrition is not going to cure you of cancer or any other chronic condition but it can help make the treatment more effective, help slow the progress of the disease, or reduce side effects. It is the single most powerful thing you can do to help yourself and become a proactive patient.
Fibromyalgia is a disorder that rarely travels alone. My "companion" disorders include restless leg syndrome, migraines and the sicca complex (dry eyes and mouth) with achalasia and osteoarthritis thrown into the mix. I understand what it is like to suffer from chronic disorders so I can appreciate all the challenges faced by many of my readers. That is why I continue to write.
This year I am entering the eBook market with several books that will only be available in this format. Look for the first this winter.
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