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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Detailing the key foods that have been medically shown to be beneficial in both preventing and fighting cancer, this is the must-have resource for anyone looking to get healthy and stay that way. AUTHOR BIO: Richard Béliveau, PhD, a leading authority in cancer research, holds the Chair in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer at the Université du Quebec à Montréal, where he is a professor of biochemistry. Denis Gingras, PhD, in an oncology researcher at the Centre de cancérologie Charles-Bruneau. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Richard Beliveau | | Paperback: | 192 pages | | Publisher: | DK ADULT | | Publication Date: | April 16, 2007 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0756628679 | | Product Length: | 9.2 inches | | Product Width: | 7.26 inches | | Product Height: | 0.56 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.26 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.21 inches | | Package Width: | 7.24 inches | | Package Height: | 0.55 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.19 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 38 reviews |
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80 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 A Very Important Book Dec 22, 2008
By K. Ulrich
"koyote kathy"
I wish I had read this book many years ago, as I am now a cancer survivor. However, since I intend to do my best to prevent a recurrence, it is still extremely valuable. What one reads in this book can also be read from the reports of the major cancer conferences in the country, such as the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December.
This book begins with one of the best explanations of cancer and how it develops in our bodies that I have ever read. (And I have read a lot!) As it continues, it then relates to how food is at least equal to, if not better, than resorting to medications. How many times have we heard to eat five servings of vegetables and fruits each day? Which of them or both is meant by that admonition? This book makes it clear which and how many, and most importantly, why. Beautifully illustrated, well written for the lay person, a valuable tool in the fight not only against cancer, but for good health!
Just a follow up note: I also purchased Recipes for Foods to Fight Cancer, a recipe book produced by the same authors with celebrity chefs producing recipes using the recommended foods. (After all, how many of us know how to fix seaweed?) However, while it is attractive and interesting, I would have preferred more simple, every day recipes, rather than gourmet recipes. Stick with Foods to Fight Cancer and you'll have all the information you need.
42 of 42 found the following review helpful:
If you are fighting cancer, buy THIS book Apr 18, 2009
By Elaina E. Jackson
"Cool Aunt"
My husband is fighting pancreatic cancer, and we are looking to do everything possible to make him healthy. I purchased several books on anti-cancer foods, but this one was the one based mostly on research, fact and data. The others seemed more anecdotal and less based on solid information.
Although it is published in 2007, it still has great information. It is missing some newer information (i.e., Triphala & Capscaisin), but overall, it is the BEST resource out there that I have found (and I have been looking).
The authors explain the biology and chemistry behind their recommendations in an understandable and useful way. EXCELLENT BOOK. You should buy it even if you are healthy, as it will show you how to prevent cancer as well.
89 of 97 found the following review helpful:
 The authors: excellent men; the book: not so hot Feb 13, 2010
By JBG
Foods to Fight Cancer provides important information, but I advise you not to buy it. Far better, and definitely worth you money, is Anticancer--A New Way of Life.
FtFC is evidently a well-meaning but unsophisticated effort by laboratory researchers to write a book for popular consumption.
A book of fewer than 200 pages, FtFC has nearly 30 full-page color illustrations presenting virtually no useful information. For example, page 168 shows an attractive Asian child eating an orange, with a small caption recommending whole foods as superior to supplements. Almost ten more such pages include only a little information. For example, page 155 presents an "artistic" photo of a glass of wine along with four superimposed sentences.
Much space in the central eleven chapters recommending specific foods is taken up with historical and literary irrelevancies. For example, the discussion of green tea includes, among other things, a brief discussion of the Boston Tea Party, and a longer account of supposed historical reasons why Americans presently prefer black tea to green tea. At the other extreme, a fair amount of technical information is presented that is of no obvious use. For example, page 112 uses most of a page to present the chemical names and structural formulas for the principal polyphenols in green tea.
End-of-chapter summaries are a good idea, but in FtFC they are constrained by a Procrustean hexagon background so that all summaries are of about the same dimension no matter how much information might usefully have been included in a particular summary.
With irrelevancies removed and some careful editing, my guess is that the useful content of FtFC could be presented in a pamphlet of less than thirty pages.
The specific foods discussed are:
* Cabbage, and cruciferous vegetables generally
* Garlic, onions, and allium family vegetables generally
* Soybeans and certain soy foods (but not soy supplements)
* Turmeric, a spice, always with a small amount of black pepper
* Green tea
* Berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc)
* Omega-3 fats (fatty fish like sardines, salmon, mackerel; flaxseed)
* Tomatoes
* Citrus fruit
* Red wine
* Dark chocolate
I found some useful pointers in the haystack, enough to cover the back and front of an ordinary postal envelope, and a couple tables of useful standard information (pages 73 and 123). There is also occasionally some MISinformation, as when, on page 97, the authors recommend eating raw soybeans, something you definitely do not want to do.
The authors of FtFC did humanity a great service by uncovering much precious information about foods that fight cancer. It took considerable professional courage even to undertake the pioneering effort. They also deserve praise for seeking to convey their findings past the stolid inertia of the medical world directly to the public. But they are better researchers than they are popular authors. The book you want is Anticancer--A New Way of Life; it provides a great deal more useful information. Be aware, though, that although Anticancer was first published only in 2007, there is already an updated 2009 edition.
23 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Book! May 09, 2008
By C. Maiman
This is an excellent book that goes into the hows and whys of the various anti-cancer foods. The book is filled with great info you won't easily find elsewhere, such as that not all Green Tea is the same when it comes to EGCG content (Japanese Green Tea has more than Chinese Green Tea). Why not swing the odds of living a long healthy life in your favor as much as possible? Eat the foods talked about in this book and you'll increase your odds of dodging the cancer bullet.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Simply the best book on the subject Jul 22, 2009
By Scott Rae
Buy this book, read the last chapter first because it summarizes what you should be eating as well as listing some very important food pairings.
OK, I'm editing this review again. In the past few weeks I have acquired several books on diet and cancer. This is definitely the best IMHO. While it is scientific enough to satisfy the technically sophisticated, it presents the specific dietary recommendations in an easily understood fashion. The order of the chapters follows the author's objective of describing how cancers develop and how diet influences the development of cancers of various parts of the body. But,the later chapters have tables listing foods, their anti-cancer compounds, and amounts to eat. So it may be helpful to browse first. Also, a very important feature is that it gives examples of food pairings, such as green tea and turmeric, that have a synergistic effect that seem mutliply the effectiveness of either food by itself.
One thing I would recommend when reading any anti-cancer book is to do a search on the internet. I find that sometimes adding "NIH" to the search string eliminates many commercial sites. For example, to find research papers dealing with EGCG which is in green tea composing the string "EGCG cancer NIH" will help find those papers. These papers may be more recent than the book and can reinforce the information in the book.
Superb graphics help immensely. The word angiogenesis takes on more meaning because they have furnished a graphic showing how increased blood vessels are needed for a tumor to grow.
Unlike some authors who are content to say plant foods contain phytochemicals that fight cancer, they list specific compounds found in specific foods and the specific cancers which they fight.
I can understand why some readers may be put off by hard to pronounce chemical names, but for me it is a plus because if I want to find out more I can put the chemical name in an online search engine. It also shows that they have firsthand knowledge of the subject.
They are very thorough too. Many books mention curcumin which is found in turmeric, but do not mention its low bioavailabity and how to increase its absorption. The authors say that piperine, a compound found in pepper, can increase absortion by 1000 fold. This is very important and they supply a graph (Fig. 36) for emphasis.
I especially enjoyed the histories of the various foods - where they originated, how they were used as medicines as well as foods, and how they were altered through plant breeding.
Memorize the many fun facts they give and you will have a lot of material for small talk. For instance, did you know that:
"In 1753 when Carl Linnaeus needed a Latin name for the cacao tree he came up with Theobroma cacao, which literally means 'food of the gods'. There were no objections recorded!"
The authors, being good scientists, are also careful to include numbers - the actual mcg or mg of compounds found in foods. And, when a compound is found in more than one food there are charts for comparison so it is easy to see the best source and by how much it is better.
In all, I found it an enjoyable read. It is also a reference which I will use in making my grocery shopping list and which I will think about when I eat each food that they discussed.
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