If you have been diagnosed with cancer, or someone you love has been, the “must read” food bible is David Servan-Schreiber’s Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life. This is a surprisingly readable handbook for eating to “not” feed the cancer while you fuel your body. There are so many amazing stories in this book that it is hard for me to pick one out. Servan-Schreiber is an MD and PhD as well as a cancer survivor, and makes the point that if you don’t change your life and the way you deal with it, the possibility of survival dramatically declines. A friend asked him (after his successful cancer treatment) what he’d done to change his life to avoid recurrence. The idea that he needed to change his life hadn’t even occurred to him. When his cancer recurred, he got the message. This book is an excellent chronicle of our changing (changed) environment and how it has changed the food we eat, including simple steps to minimize impact in your life. Every person should read the book whether they’ve looked cancer in the face or not.
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