The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Nutritional Approach to Preventing Recurrence (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series) Paperback – March 1, 2012

The "Whole Food Guide For Breast Cancer Survivors" is a great easy-to-read source of essential science-based information about cancer: what could contribute to it and how you can keep it under control after treatment.In this book, authors discuss how you can avoid or minimize exposures to various risk factors and strengthen your immunity by building body's nutrient reserves.In addition, since hormonal balance, blood sugar regulation, stress, inflammation, and toxic burden play an important role in cancer development, the authors give practical tips on how to optimize all these factors, help the body return to the state of internal harmony and maintain lasting health.You will learn which nutrients are crucial for health and how to nourish your body with delicious nutrient-dense whole-foods based meals using the easy to follow recipes. Plus, the tips on how you can make your pantry super-healthy are in the book, too.The guidelines on eating and living for recovery and health empowered my mom and grandpa to tolerate chemo and radiation treatment, recover from its effects, and continue living and feeling better.My mom has been cancer free for 12 years (although she needs regular reminders and coaching to stay on track, especially about better eating out choices and non-toxic personal care products like cosmetics, skin creams, and perfumes). This book gives a succinct outline of good ideas - great to use as a constant reminder to stay on healthy track for cancer survivors. I wish it could be translated into different languages.Highly recommended for a general reader as well as for someone going through cancer treatments and interested in optimizing recovery!

Every Breast Cancer patient MUST read this book. The information is invaluable!

Great content, but I would not have purchased had I known it was written a decade ago.

Of all the books I devoured during my days of preparation for surgery and the period of recovery, the Whole Foods Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors was the most helpful. One of my goals was to learn more about my hormone levels, since the cells that were removed were estrogen positive, and I didn't feel comfortable taking Tamoxifen or a similar medicine, which was the only option I was given. I contacted one of the hormone testing companies listed in the book, discovered that the owner of the company had developed a new "dry urine" test, which provided important information regarding all of my hormone levels and liver detoxification function as well. Although my hormone levels were low, which is not a profile generally consistent with women who develop breast cancer, the report identified a possible detoxification pathway that may have been a contributing factor. Working with a holistic doctor, who was familiar with the test, I started taking a few supplements to offset the problem. I was able to avoid taking a drug that I knew was not good for me and begin a program that I could embrace and feel confident in. I'm very grateful that this book was available.

As a cancer consultant,I have attended many cancer conferences, nationwide, and have been privileged to have heard several of Helayne Waldman's presentations pertaining to the impactful role that food and nutrition play in breast cancer. After having heard her most recent presentation at a conference in Florida, I realized I must purchase her "excellent" book that is replete with tremendously valuable information, easily "digestible", for any woman seeking to reduce and eliminate the myriad risk factors for recurrent breast cancer. She explains, with straight-forward logic and clarity, how certain foods can influence and counter the many factors that lay the groundwork for a permissive cancer environment. She explains how food can impact and enhance the immune system, and enlightens the reader about critical issues, specific to breast cancer survivors, such as: stress, glucose-sugar, inflammation and hormonal considerations. I highly recommend this book, without hesitation, to any health-care practitioner and/or any individual impacted by breast cancer, as a major informational-reference book to help cancer survivors become cancer thrivers and keep cancer at bay by supporting the body's internal terrain, to insure a healthy and happy life for decades to come.

This book has been a tremendous help. I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in September of this year. I am grateful for my doctors and the treatments that modern medicine has provided for me, but I was thrilled to discover this book. It has armed me with the knowledge I needed to do something that is within my own control to reduce the risk of my cancer recurring. The information is written in easy to understand language and provides simple, practical advice on how to put the knowledge to work for me. I have recommended this book to every one I know who is battling cancer, and to everyone I know who wants to prevent cancer! It has drastically changed the way I view food. I carefully consider what I buy and what I choose to put in my mouth because I now understand the consequences - good and bad - of each decision I make. God created an amazing thing when he created the human body - and he created the earth to provide perfect food for those bodies. This book explains how feeding our bodies the food it was intended to have keeps our immune systems strong...and the bad stuff at bay!

After my breast cancer surgery, I purchased four used books on nutrition. I’ve received two thus far, and this one is much, much better than the other. It is VERY actionable, and for those of us who previously didn’t maintain proper weight or diet, that’s important. There are simple steps you can take that have the potential to make a difference, many of which you can adopt immediately. I’ve already shared info with others who do not have cancer, in hopes that these steps can help keep them healthy. Give this one a try!