Total Breast Health: The Power Food Solution for Protection and Wellness » (REVISED)

The latest studies reveal vitamins and other nutrients that prevent breast cancer work best when they come directly from the foods you eat. Now Robin Keuneke has created a guide and cookbook focused on foods that prevent breast cancer and help in recovery. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this long-awaited book brings women strong protection against a disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. Here at last are revolutionary findings about the role fats play in women's health, clear do's and don'ts for food selection and preparation, and the facts you need to encourage breast health through diet and lifestyle choices.

Publishers Weekly

According to Keuneke, food editor of Total Health magazine, the key to healthy breasts is found in what she calls "superfoods," drawn from three culinary traditions: flax seed and oil from northern Europe, soy foods from Japan and extra virgin olive oil from the Mediterranean. Keuneke, neither a scientist nor a physician, devotes an entire chapter to an interview with nutritionist Udo Erasmus (Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill) who urges consumption of unheated oils rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. To protect against breast cancer and to aid recovery from it, she also recommends organically grown antioxidant-rich vegetables to promote a favorable hormonal balance, herbal teas to enhance the immune and lymphatic systems, special baths protective against mammography radiation, and chemical-reducing water filters for the kitchen and bath. Recipes appear throughout the text as well as in a special section featuring "breast-protective power foods," such as miso, tempeh, tofu and sea vegetables. Keuneke's approach, backed by Dr. Lendon Smith's foreword, is directed toward women who are willing to make the serious commitment to a broad life-style change. (June) (PW best book of 1998)