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Foods to Fight Cancer: Essential foods to help prevent cancer |  | Author: Richard Beliveau
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4949
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0756628679
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.9940654
EAN: 9780756628673
ASIN: 0756628679
Publication Date: April 16, 2007
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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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 Terrific book March 7, 2010
Lorriger rogerson (WAshington, usa)
Bought this after having read "Anti cancer a new way of life " both books are terrific. this book is a quick easy guide to get people started or as a quick reminder of what you should be eating. I throughougly enjoyed both books, and I think they are a goood compliment to each other. There were slight differences in the diets. For example, in "anti cancer.." he recommends 2 to 3 cups green tea. This one recommends at least 3. Anti cancer had a lot of information that is not in this book, such as how sugar feeds tumors and need to avoid sugar. I recommend buying both books, and reading them both as quickly as possible. I recommend starting with "Anti cancer new way of life " becuase it gives quite a bit of more info off the bat. If your short on time, use this book as a quick start guide, then go back later and read the other book.
 Very Informative Book February 23, 2010
detroitstyle (detroit)
I rencently book this book because a loved one previously had cancer and could possibly be battling with it again. I wanted to know more about which foods they should be introducing more into their current diet. The book is very well laid out. Everything is in color. It does get a little bit high techy and medical in some parts which I briefly skimmed over. The breakdowns of food groups is very interesting. Even when the food areas are broken down into the groups you don't have to read the entire chapter if you do not want to because it has highlighted summary areas. All in all I would say this book is worth buying. Very helpful even if you do not have cancer, I know I've made some changes already to my own diet.
 The authors: excellent men; the book: not so hot February 13, 2010
Creature of Nature (Champaign IL)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Important for those who have cancer or want to avoid it. February 12, 2010
Pedro Pat (San Pedro, CA)
Have worked as a registered dietition,(RD) & have MS degree in Food Science/Nutrition. Have had breast cancer. I recognized the value of this book especially since it was recommended by an MD who experienced cancer as well.
Excellent! And about HEALTH, not just anti-cancer! February 8, 2010
Linda J. Chubbuck (Lee's Summit, MO)
This is a colorful, appealing (Dorling Kindersley!) absolutely fascinating fully illustrated book about the human body, and specific healthy foods, and how they interact.
Canadian cancer researcher Richard Beliveau PhD, whose story I first came across in the equally wonderful book Anticancer (David Servan-Schreiber) describes in detail - with diagrams and photographs - what a specific micronutrient does at a cellular level. He and co-writer Denis Gingras PhD back up the description of the processes with appealing charts, data from the laboratory, data from global population studies and stories about the history of the food. Super foods like turmeric, green tea, garlic, cabbage, blueberries, and more get the treatment in this book. If you have done any other research, you'll also be making connections in your mind about how these processes protect against heart disease, diabetes, etc.
If you are interested in health, foods, protection against cancer and other diseases, this is a top notch book to own.
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