The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Nutritional Approach to Preventing Recurrence (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) [Paperback]

Edward Bauman MEd PhD (Author), Helayne Waldman MS EdD (Author), Donald I. Abrams MD (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2, 2012 | Series: The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series

Millions of breast cancer survivors have two things in common: a renewed gratitude for their good health and a recharged commitment to taking care of their bodies. The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors is an integrative, whole foods guide to rebuilding health after surviving breast cancer and reducing the chance of breast cancer reoccurrence. Although cancer does have a significant genetic component, lifestyle factors such as nutrition also play a role in determining the likelihood that cancer will reappear. This program helps readers get the nutrition they need in order to keep breast cancer at bay, with specific guidance for managing hormone levels with food. The guide also explains how nutritional deficiencies, environmental factors, and antioxidants affect cancer's ability to attack the body. Using holistic health and nutrition leader Edward Bauman's Eating for Health model, readers learn to eat for pleasure, eat for energy, eat for recovery, and eat for health in order to starve cancer and enjoy stronger, healthier bodies.

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“As the general public becomes more interested in the benefits of healthy eating, these authors are shining a light on the association between nutrition and malignant disease. The book is an evidence-based treatise on the role of nutrition in wellness, treatment, and follow-up care as a vital part of dealing with cancer. It also happens to be the part that the patient has the most control over. The book is a treasure chest of cutting-edge information. It includes a meal plan, pantry set-up, and starter recipes.”
—Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer

“The heart and soul of The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors is empowerment! The book is chock full of wonderful morsels of information and shows us that food is one of our most powerful tools for healing and nourishment.”
—Rebecca Katz, MS, author of The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen

“With one in seven women suffering from breast cancer, The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors is a much-needed book. It provides useful information for women who are looking for a holistic approach and a good road map to guide breast cancer survivors into a healthier lifestyle.”
—David Brownstein, MD, author of ten books and the Dr. Brownstein’s Natural Way to Health monthly newsletter

“The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors is a common-sense compendium of what you need to know to live longer and better if you have or had breast cancer, or want to prevent it. Authors Edward Bauman and Helayne Waldman wisely blend lifestyle and natural strategies that strengthen our bodies’ defenses against cancer and promote wellness. A must-read for anyone who wants to take control of the destiny of their own health. “
—Len Saputo, MD, founder of the Health Medicine Forum, Health Medicine Center, and author of A Return to Healing

“I am delighted to see this book in print. It contains lots of valuable information that will help women and men make the most informed decisions on dealing with breast cancer. The book is very readable, and is filled with instructions on what we can do now to help ourselves.”
—Ann Fonfa, founder of The Annie Appleseed Project and diagnosed with breast cancer in January 1993

“The Whole-Foods Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors offers readers a robust synthesis of how nutrition can dramatically reduce your risk of breast cancer or recurrence. This book provides not the watered-down and jaded suggestions offered previously, but exciting, new tips that most oncologists don’t know. Highly empowering and life-altering for women.”
—Sara Gottfried, MD, integrative physician at The Gottfried Center for Integrative Medicine in Berkeley, CA, and author of The Hormone Cure

“Bauman and Waldman have written an easy-to-follow guide for whole-body healing filled with inspiring anecdotes and helpful chapter-by-chapter to-do lists. It is an excellent resource that may be used to equip recovering breast cancer survivors as well as their families with solid nutritional information and delicious recipes containing healing foods that will ensure health, well-being, and longevity.”
—Margo Jordan Parker, OMD, CEO of Herbal Fortress

About the Author

Edward Bauman, MEd, PhD, is the president and founder of Bauman College: Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts. He is a groundbreaking leader in the field of whole-food nutrition.

Helayne Waldman, MS, EdD, is a holistic nutrition educator in private practice and a consultant to breast cancer clinics and doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Foreword writer Donald I. Abrams, MD, is professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and chief of hematology/oncology at San Francisco General Hospital.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (February 2, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572249587
• ISBN-13: 978-1572249585
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Whole Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors, February 21, 2012

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This review is from: The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Nutritional Approach to Preventing Recurrence (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) (Paperback)

The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors

Edward Bauman

Helayne Waldman

"I can't say that the cancer walk is easy, but I know that if someone like me can change, then anyone can change."

Marilyn - Quote from her Afterword, Pages 161 - 163

Plaudits for Other Amazon Members' Quotes in Book

D'Ann - Last Word, Avoidable Exposures, Excerpt: "Change is rarely easy or simple, but

good changes can save our lives!" Page 55

Carole - Last Word, Nutrient Sufficiencies and Efficiencies, Excerpt, "Once I started recognizing

myself for the unique biochemical being that I am, I could pick and choose the

nutrients that made the most sense for me," Page 79

Karla - Last Word, The Keys to Lowering Your Toxic Burden, Excerpt, "I'd just not given that

much thought to cleaning my 'insides'. My breast cancer changed all that," Page 144

Congratulations, Helayne, on writing this wonderful new book on foods as medicine for breast cancer survivors!

By providing background information on healthful foods and ways to decrease our toxic exposures, Helayne's book is compelling reading for every breast cancer patient to help prevent a recurrence.

Illuminating healing strategies with tons of delicious information (including, literally, recipes - some of them from Helayne, herself), plus tips on vitamins, foods, and toxin-reduction, that are all sprinkled with delightful breast cancer survivor testimonials, embody Helayne's theme that every breast cancer patient can take healing steps with medicinal foods. Indeed, no matter what a breast cancer survivor has done in the past, after a breast cancer diagnosis, "Anyone can change".

Of all of the chapters on such things as avoiding toxic exposures, nourishing immunity, inflammation, glucose and insulin control, hormone balance, and how to lower our toxic burden, my interest was in the nutrient sufficiencies and efficiencies section.

In the Nutrient Sufficiencies and Efficiencies chapter, Helayne vividly introduces the breast cancer patient to nutrition, "Literally thousands of studies have uncovered a clear and distinct relationship between vital nutrients and cancer risk. One influential study (Ramesha et al. 1990) provides a powerful example."

. Indeed, in this cool old Ramesha et al. study, Helayne explains how the rats given the DMBA carcinogen were then supplemented differentially with selenium, magnesium, vitamin C, and vitamin A. When no nutrients were given, the rats got breast cancer. When ONE of the supplements was given, 46.4% to 57.1% of the rats developed tumors, depending on the nutrient. When TWO of the supplements were given together, the tumor incidence decreased in the rats to 25.9% to 34.6%, depending again on the combination of supplements. When THREE nutrients were given together, there was an additional tumor reduction to 16% to 23.1% And then, when all FOUR nutrients were given, "the tumor incidence dropped to 12%."

To me, this one study exquisitely exemplifies Helayne's philosophy on incorporating nutritional strategies to help prevent breast cancer and a recurrence.

Indeed, every breast cancer patient, upon diagnosis, should be given this study.

Further, in this Nutrients' chapter, Helayne comprehensively, rather deftly with references, summarizes the complexity of such nutrients as iodine, vitamin D, and selenium.

Let's hope that this section on nutrients, alone, will pique the interest of all breast cancer patients to further peruse articles, studies, and books and come and share them with us in the Amazon Group (amazon-alternatives.org)

I enthusiastically recommend Helayne's book.