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Total Breast Health: The Power Food Solution for Protection and Wellness

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Robin Keuneke's comprehensive and scientifically based book, TOTAL BREAST HEALTH, is well organized and full of nutritional information for today's health-conscious women. The recipes included are flavorful and, based on scientific data, may very well help to prevent breast cancer. Robin has taken a difficult scientific topic, made it easy to understand and fascinating to read. I highly recommend this book for both women and men who want to take cahrge of their health.

As a cardiologist voraciously devouring books on natural approaches to healing and health, I was elated to find Robin Keuneke's "Total Breast Health." Her work is truly complete. It approaches breast health and illness from multiple angles: science, emotion, nutrition, and spirituality are all considered. Her openness to the opinions and knowledge of other experts is a breath of fresh air. This text is well-written, comprehensive, and fascinating. It is a must for everyone. "Total Breast Health" goes to the top of my list of "natural" health books. -- Seth J. Baum, M.D., F.A.C.

TotalHealth Magazine food editor Robin Keuneke has produced with compassionate insight a well-researched book of encyclopedic proportions for women and anyone who wants to get well and enjoy good health. A self-described foodie, Ms. Keuneke offers a guide to foods that are rich in breast protective phytochemicals, as well as up-to-date research on how phytochemicals contribute to breast cancer prevention. Most of the pages are devoted to sample menus and recipes featuring an exciting and broad spectrum of vegetables, herbs, as well as protective oils with invaluable tips on the healthiest ways of preparing them. For example, flaxseed oil and olive oil are best used unheated, according to Ms. Keuneke's research. The 125 breast health recipes include ingredients of the highest quality and are based on international flavors and cuisines. To create breast health, life style is an important factor. In chapter 20, "Personal Care Guide", Ms. Keuneke provides important information on natural medicine, exercise, personal body care tips, aromatherapy and information designed to enhance ithe immune system. TOTAL BREAST HEALTH determinedly focuses on prevention and the chapter on the healing benefits of fresh oils is a masterpiece of well-researched information, refuting current thinking on low-fat diets. Replete with interviews, case studies, medical studies, extensive bibliography, resource guide and references, this is likely 1998's most important book on prevention and self-managed health care. Josephine Mahi Managing Editor TotalHealth Magazine April, 1998

I really loved this book. It has all the current information about essential fats in the diet as they relate to breast health. The recipes are what make it stand out! Ms Keuneke has written a well researched and informative book. I think it deserves more attention in the press at least as much as the other book currently at the top of the bestseller charts! Read this wonderful book it will improve your overall health too!!

Robin Keuneke's "Total Breast Health" is a model for all nutrition books. Combine its easy-to-read, well-referenced, and organized format with one of the nation's most important preventable diseases, breast cancer, and you have a deserved best seller. Keuneke's exploration into fascinating and controversial areas while bringing a clear light without judgmental tone is a hallmark of this book. Of particular interest to many will be the depth that Keuneke has written about dietary fat and its relationship with disease. While this is a complex subject, it is elucidated better through an interview format than any I have read before. As interesting as Keuneke's section is on dietary fat, she is able to cover many breast health subjects with as much acumen. Of great interest are the chapters, 'The Hidden Power of Plant Foods' and 'Herbs, Spices, and Mushrooms.' Simply said, if you want to promote not just breast health but total vitality, read Keuneke's book and follow her simple and delicious recipes. -- Paul Schulick, author of "Ginger: Common Spice and Wonder Drug"

Robin Keuneke's book Total Breast Health has wonderful information on breast care that focus's on diet and lifestyle through foods, herbs, and supplements, that are all backed up by scientific research. It's a huge resource for women, and I feel gives options that are wholistic, with proven effectiveness, that could give us and edge in keeping our bodies and our breast healthy.

Robin Keuneke has saved me a lot of valuable time by writing an excellent book, "Total Breast Health." As a physician who practices alternative medicine, I spend a great deal of time educating patients about the causes and prevention of diseases as well as giving them safe, natural approaches to alleviate their ailments. Now I can also refer them to this well-balanced, highly-informative and practical book. It's important to know that this book is not for women only. I believe that the underlying concepts and principles in "Total Breast Health" can be applied to other medical problems as well, such as prostate cancer and heart disease, to name a few. I believe that anybody who is interested in getting the cutting edge information on how to stay healthy should read this book. -- Alan R. Cohen, M.D., P.C. (Milford, CT)

"Total Breast Health" begins where works such as "Save Yourself From Breast Cancer" (1994), "The Complete Breast Book" (1996), and Susun Weed's "Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way" (1996) leave off. While Weed's book is quite nice, Robin Keuneke's "Total Breast Health" is magnificent. It's bursting at the seams with insights, practical advice, solid research, supplements, and frankly, everything that's needed to wage an all-out war on breast cancer -- for prevention and healing (for survivors). The breast-cancer prevention coverage includes (in part): the fats-and-oils connection (including an interview with "fats guru" Udo Erasmus); organic foods and reducing our toxic burden; the latest research on the protective benefits of plant foods, herbs, and spices; recipes; and more. An outstanding "breast health" manifesto. -- "Better Nutrition" magazine, September 1998.

"Total Breast Health: The Power Food Solution for Protection and Wellness," a book by nationally renowned food editor Robin Keuneke, is a revolutionary guide and cookbook to prevent and help in the recovery of breast cancer. -- "New Living Magazine," September 1998.

In "Total Breast Health," natural foods editor and chef Robin Keuneke performs a yeoman's task in sifting through and distilling the seemingly limitless amount of information and innumerable related studies on the health-giving properties of food and their efficacy in preventing diseases such as breast cancer. As if this weren't enough, she follows with 125 of the most delicious recipes inspired by her world travels, designed to show how to incorporate these foods and prepare them to gain maximum nutritional benefit. Best of all, "Total Breast Health" contains information of vital interest to all women, particularly on the correct use of fats and oils in our diets. I am delighted that Keuneke spends a lot of time here since most women suffer imbalances in the two essential fatty acids so critically important to good health. In clear layman's terms, Keuneke builds on a theme gaining interesting mainstream attention: that the right kind of fats and oils are essential to creating and maintaining health. She skillfully shows the reader that not all oils are created equal -- some are better than others, but regardless, it is never a good idea to heat them. This theme is ubiquitous throughout the book and for the first time we have a collection of serious, gourmet recipes using health-giving oils without the need to fry, saute, or grill. Beyond fats and oils, "Total Breast Health" presents the latest studies on such topical issues as: low/no fat diets, the importance of organic, the connection among food, hormones, and breast cancer, and the power and importance of a variety of vegetables in one's diet. Many of the recipes created for the book were motivated by her desire to demonstrate the endless ways in which delicious, health-giving meals can be prepared by combining a variety of vegetables without over-reliance on starchy carbohydrates. Amen! Her chapter on Asian and Mediterranean diets is revealing. Women in these cultures have lower incidences of cancer and heart disease than in the West, and in "Total Breast Health," we learn that these diets are more plant-based and balanced in terms of protein/carbohydrates and the essential fatty acids. Is there a correlation? Keuneke presents compelling information that there may be. "Total Breast Health" is a thoroughly-researched, clearly inspired, and imminently-readable book on a very serious and timely topic of concern to all women. The comprehensive personal care and resource guides round out this "must read" volume written with the same compassionate hand that has become Robin Keuneke's trademark. Highly recommended! -- Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., author of "Beyond Pritkin" and "Beyond the Change"