The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Could Save Your Life (Hardcover)

by Bob Arnot (Author) "There's nothing I look forward to more than starting a fresh new day..." (more)
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Amazon.com Review
Prostate cancer killed more than 37,000 men in the U.S. in 1999, and it gets ahold of men early and often. According to autopsy reports, about 25 percent of men in their 30s have latent prostate tumors, as do more than half of men in their 60s.

However, says NBC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot, research is beginning to show that this is a cancer that can be prevented or even reversed by dietary changes. The first key, he writes, is soy. America produces a lot but Americans eat very little. In countries in which soy is a dietary staple, men get prostate cancer at a fraction of the U.S. rate. (A second benefit of soy, says Arnot, is a high concentration of the amino acid tyrosine, which helps keep you alert.)

Dr. Arnot lays out a dietary plan that includes lots of soy, along with antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables. Not coincidentally, this is also a low-fat, heart-healthy diet. Dr. Arnot says that many men are simultaneously at risk for heart disease and prostate cancer; diets rich in saturated animal fats tend to trigger both conditions.

Another benefit of Dr. Arnot's plan is that it prevents breast cancer, too, giving couples a powerful incentive to make the extreme dietary changes necessary to prevent these his-and-hers killers. And with or without the spousal incentive, Dr. Arnot says his experience with his own plan shows that men will lose weight, increase energy, and lower stress--a few valuable perks to take along on that longer, healthier life. --Lou Schuler

From Library Journal
Arnot calls breast cancer and prostate cancer (PCa) brother-and-sister diseases. Following the success of his The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet (LJ 10/15/98), he presents his thesis that PCa is just one of a package of diseases for which we put ourselves at risk by consuming the "Western diet," characterized by high amounts of animal fats, refined flours, and sugars and little fiber and whole foods such as fruits and vegetables. In lay reader's language, Arnot explains the elements of nutritional therapy for men so that they can protect themselves against PCa. Readers are told what to eat and what not to eat, and recipes are included. In addition to diet, Arnot emphasizes healthy lifestyle habits for combating stress and discusses alternative medicine approaches to PCa. With its emphasis on staying healthy, this reference should appeal to a wide readership, especially in the light of New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani's recent cancer diagnosis.
James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 338 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316051535
• ISBN-13: 978-0316051538
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #747,953 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timely Help, May 31, 2000

By	"jean_magee" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

With an older male relative stricken with prostate cancer and with 3 brother-in-laws in their 40's the timeliness of this book really struck a chord with me.

I was impressed by the depth of information and also the author's insistence that if we lead healthier lives concentrating on nutrition - well, we would lead healthier lives. I was also very impressed that some of the information and advice he gives on food and nutrition would also have an effect on breast cancer, as well as other types of cancer. My mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was just a little older than I am today. My plan is to live a long, healthy life. I plan to take some of Dr. Arnot's advice to heart. His writing is clear, concise and again, very timely for all of us.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most important book you many ever read...., July 12, 2000

By	Leonard J. Sparks "ljs" (CC, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book could very easily save your life. While it reaffirmed things I know about fiber, insulin, and exercise, it gave me a lot of new information about how to keep from getting prostate cancer (like my father had), and other important information. It also described "insulin resistance", which is something that I have and has baffeled my doctor for well over a year! Dr. Bob, thanks for writing this great book.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great on nutrition but biased & simplistic re: surgery, February 19, 2001

By A Customer

This book is entertainingly and enthusiastically written and gives excellent information on how to eat to avoid prostate cancer or counteract prostate cancer--help slow or stop its growth--once you have it. I was apalled, however, at how Arnot started his chapter on "surgery," describing two groups of couples in which the men had prostate cancer. The one, happy giggling group was composed of couples where the decision was to "watch and wait" regarding the prostate cancer--in other words, not have radiation or surgery for the present. In the other group, the men had had surgery within the previous year and "These men appeared morose, even depressed. Many complained of the need to wear diapers. Months after the operation, many no longer had any sex life at all."

This picture is biased, black-and-white, unrealistic and I beleive cruel to people who are trying to decide what to do about prostate cancer. Surgery IS the gold standard treatment for younger men with cancer detected early--men who might die prematurely and very painfully if they did not have surgery, which has a better than 90 percent chance of curing them. And certainly men like Bob Dole, General Schwarzkopf and thousands of others who had surgery are not morose and feeling as if their lives are over--in fact they probably feel a lot better than the 30 percent of those who watch and wait and after ten years have cancer spreading throughout their bodies.

People have to make their choices as best they can, and both watchful waiting and surgery can be appropriate. Arnot's description painting surgery as totally black was neither good journalism nor good medicine, and as the wife of a 59-year-old-man who will probably have surgery, I did not appreciate the depiction. Less than 8 percent (some say 2 pwercent) of men wear diapers after recovery from surgery and all who have surgery are certainly NOT MOROSE compare to all who wait being giddy and happy. For the fifty to thirty percent who cannot have natural erections, there are several good alternatives that will make the penis errect--and the nerves that cost erections DO NOT hinder sensation or orgasm in anyone--men may not get errect but they can feel and have orgasms! Many people take the lemons of this experience and the surgery and make lemonade, glad to be alive and have a chance at a cure. Making a blanket and untrue statement that suggest surgery leads to moroseness is neither helpful, accurate or true. The next edition of this otherwise very good book should correct that.