Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer [Hardcover]

Christine Horner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2005 | ISBN-10: 1591201551 | ISBN-13: 978-1591201557 | Edition: 1

Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects 2 to 3 million women, and the incidence is going up at an alarming rate. What can we do about it? Christine Horner, M.D., has the prescription: Take healthy organic foods, add a good dose of certain supplements, get the rest and exercise we need, and avoid those things that are bad for our bodies. We each have a Warrior Goddess in us, and it's time to set her free. A pioneer who pushed through federal and state legislation ensuring that breast reconstruction after a mastectomy would be paid for by insurance companies, Dr. Horner lost her own mother to breast cancer. She decided then that her mother's death would not be in vain. Something good would come from it. This legislation was her first gift to her mother's memory, and this book is another. Useing the metaphor of the Warrior Goddess, this book explains something that Ayurveda describes as our "inner healing intelligence." It also explores the various foods and supplements that can enable women to successfully fight breast cancer and claim the healthy body that should be theirs. Dr. Horner tells readers what to avoid and what to embrace, what will poison the Warrior Goddess and what will feed her and what she needs to thrive.

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About the Author

Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a nationally known surgeon, residing in Taos, New Mexico. She holds two board certifications: the National Board of Surgery and the National Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Horner was recognized as a leader in her field after she initiated, organized, and managed a successful national campaign to pass laws requiring insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction following mastectomy. For over a decade, Dr. Horner worked with the American Cancer Society. Dr. Horner is a popular, charismatic speaker and, for the last several years, has spoken extensively on natural health topics and natural approaches to breast cancer prevention. In 1997, Dr. Horner was honored by receiving the YWCA Career Women of Achievement Award.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications; 1 edition (March 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591201551
• ISBN-13: 978-1591201557
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging > Cancer > Breast Cancer

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65 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Soy NOT a Safe Way to Prevent Breast Cancer, September 3, 2006

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Kaayla T. Daniel "The Naughty Nutritionist" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer (Hardcover)

Awaken the Warrior Goddess! What a powerful and positive message for today's women. Unhappily, Dr. Horner enters the fray with the dangerous advice that women protect themselves from breast cancer by increasing their consumption of soy. In fact, the evidence that soy prevents breast cancer is inconsistent and contradictory at best, with numerous studies showing soy can cause, contribute to or accelerate the growth of cancer, particularly breast cancer. I am not alone in this concern. The Israeli Health Ministry has warned that babies should not receive soy formula, that children to age 18 should consume soy foods or soy milk no more than once per day to a maximum of 3 times per week and that adults should exercise caution because of adverse effects on fertility and increased breast cancer risk. The French Food Agency is now implementing regulations that will require warning labels on soy foods advising consumers of risks to women who have been diagnosed with or have a family history of breast cancer. Cornell University has also warned women at risk for breast cancer to take it easy on soy. Finally, soy contributes to numerous other health problems such as hypothyroidism, infertility and cognitive decline. Awake warriors need to know that POSSIBLE benefits are outweighed by PROVEN risks and a good policy is "better safe than sorry."

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Personal, Profound and Powerful, April 14, 2005

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Matthew Shea (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer (Hardcover)

Read this book. Do not tarry or delay. Waking the Warrior Goddess is 300 pages of can't-put-it-down reading that will immediately alter the cancer odds to favor you. Dr Horner keeps it to the point while keeping it thorough, practical and fun. Tips, insights, crisp writing, clarity, short chapters, sidebars, an "A-list" of the best herbal supplements, loads of memorable quotes and just plain wonderful original artwork make Waking the Warrior Goddess easy to read and re-read. It's magnetic. You will revisit this book, without question.

I liked many things about this book. One small example is the author's final section on "customs" instead of the tedious and overused "steps." Perfect. Dr Horner gives us, in one word, a different, better, gentle, inspiring, insightful way of thinking about changing habits that immediately improve our odds in the horrible life/death cancer equation. It's one of many such fine touches. The publisher, Basic Health has a serious winner here. Kudos to them for publishing a much needed user-friendly masterpiece built on a Gibraltar of the latest and strongest published peer-reviewed placebo-controlled research culled directly from the medical database. Dr Horner's traditional medical education shows in her careful, accurate writing. With this book, you can confidently and effectively start fighting or preventing cancer today. Period. This book will change your odds and your mindset. This book can save your life, and the lives of those you love.

From the 50-thousand foot view, this book is a milestone of insight. The truth is, the talented pen of Dr Horner, a surgeon, expertly peels back the veil on our misguided often deadly assumptions to reveal the dynamic emerging model of medicine and tools that can save and strengthen your health. And she does it in a form and structure that invites every reader into that delightful future from page one. The paradigm of modern medicine is shifting -- thank God -- and Dr Horner puts a bright klieg light on the proven tools to enliven the body's powerful inner healing intelligence. This book strongly advances the leading edge of the emerging model of medicine. Read it and live.

I have only one question, and it goes to Basic Health Publications: When is Dr Horner's next book coming out?

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for All Women, April 19, 2005

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Jane Howard (Dayton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer (Hardcover)

Breast cancer. Two words that evoke a visceral terror in most women. Is there anything that can abate the overwhelming sense of helplessness that often accompanies this fear? Or must we simply live with the anxiety of wondering whether someday we may become the next statistic.

As a woman with a family history of breast cancer these were my questions. My aunt died of breast cancer at age 77--young considering that all of her siblings have lived well into their 90's.

Enter Dr. Christine Horner's book Waking the Warrior Goddess. In this groundbreaking book I have found the antidote to the sense of fear and helplessness that surrounds the specter of breast cancer.

Dr. Horner's book is well researched and contains a practical program for making positive changes that support a woman's health on all levels. I found the extensive list of resources to be particularly helpful. And while I have found most books on health topics to be quite dry, this book is the rare exception. Dr. Horner engages the reader with her warm, intimate style. Her passion for her subject matter is apparent. A highlight of the book is her personal story of how the book came to be written.

I highly recommend this book to any woman who is concerned about creating and maintaining a healthful lifestyle that protects her from the scourge of breast cancer. Now is the time to awaken our Warrior Goddess. Do not hit the snooze button. Read this book.