10 Healthy Cookbooks To Help Fight Cancer
10 Healthy Cookbooks To Help Fight Cancer
Cancer sucks. There's no way around it. It's unfair, emotional, and shocking. Whether it's minor or major, whether it's your daughter-in-laws old teacher, or your Dad. We all know someone who has had it, survived it, or died from it. And while we can't control how we get it, we can control how to react from it. Nutrition is an important factor in battling cancer. Eating right, avoiding certain foods, and maintaining a healthy diet can't cure cancer but it can help tremendously in the process. So take a look at the ten cancer cookbooks that we deem fit.
1. The Cancer Fighting Kitchen
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"This new and revised edition of the IACP award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal, through 150 new and updated recipes."
2. The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook
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"Eating certain foods and avoiding others can be a highly effective way to diminish and manage inflammation. In The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook, professional cook and inflammation sufferer Amanda Haas joins forces with Dr. Bradly Jacobs to explain which foods are beneficial and why and to share 65 delicious, simple inflammation-busting recipes."
3. The Ketogenic Kitchen
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'Cancer survivors Domini Kemp and Patricia Daly offer the first comprehensive ketogenic cookbook based on the most exciting new research on nutritional approaches to the prevention and management of cancer".
4. The Lahey Clinic Guide to Cooking Through Cancer
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'More than serving as a helpful reference guide for patients, this book is about finding enjoyment in something―good food―that cancer frequently ruins for people, and these meals are valuable tools for asserting control over that single, important aspect of your life and health".
5. The Cancer Wellness Cookbook: Smart Nutrition and Delicious Recipes for People Living with Cancer
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'With super healthy and delicious ingredients like berries, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, and fish, these dishes taste great and are filled with the nutrients that aid a person undergoing chemotherapy and other cancer treatments".
6. Cancer Nutrition and Recipes For Dummies
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"Designed for cancer patients and their families, Cancer Nutrition & Recipes For Dummies focuses on foods best tolerated during—and that can ease side effects of—cancer treatment. It also offers advice for menu planning, nutritional analysis, diabetic exchanges, and much more".
7. A Conversation About Healthy Eating
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"This book allows for a comprehensive understanding and provides clear recommendations for how you can adapt both your environment and your lifestyle to make healthy eating possible".
8. Cook for Your Life: Delicious, Nourishing Recipes for Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment
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"A beautiful, unique cookbook with delicious recipes for all stages of cancer treatment and recovery, from a two-time cancer survivor and founder of the Cook for Your Life nutrition-based cooking programs".
9. The Anti-Cancer Diet
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"With the huge number of studies on nutrition and cancer available, it's impossible for a person to sort through them all to come up with practical recommendations. Now, Dr. David Khayat, a world-renowned oncologist, has done that hard work for you".
10. The How Not to Die Cookbook
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"Dr Michael Greger, founder of the wildly popular website NutritionFacts, takes his comprehensive, lifesaving science into the kitchen. Why suffer from disease and ill health when the right food is proven to keep you healthy, and without the side effects of drugs? We can avoid heart disease, cancer and our other biggest killers if we use food as medicine, and the How Not To Die Cookbook offers a sustainable and delicious guide to preparing and eating the foods that will prevent and reverse fatal diseases".
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