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Healthy Eating for Life for Children
By Vesanto Melina, M.S., R.D.

Cancer has leapt from being a fairly rare disease just a few decades ago to what is now a condition of everyday life. Far too many of us find ourselves in doctors' offices, having frank and frightening discussions about what this diagnosis means, desperately trying to sort through difficult treatment choices.

However, that dismal scenario is rapidly transforming into a far more optimistic one. New approaches come from researchers who have carefully studied people with cancer and those seemingly protected from it. They have examined individuals who, despite the diagnosis, have lived far longer than expected or even had complete remissions. In teasing apart their diets, clues have emerged that have then been put to the test in confirmatory studies. While this line of research is still ongoing, we have already learned enough that if people everywhere took full advantage of it, many cancers would never occur.

Chapters Include

• New Power Against Cancer
  
• Tracking Down the Culprits
  
• The Right Stuff: Getting the Nutrients You Need
  
• Foods for Cancer Survival
  
• Nutrition During Cancer Treatment
  
• Putting Foods to Work Against Today's Common Cancers
  
• Treating Yourself to Good Food and Great Health
  
• Fitness, Friendship, and Freedom from Stress

Plus 80 Easy Recipes for Cancer Prevention and Survival

Author Information
Vesanto Melina, M.S., R.D., was trained at the University of Toronto and the University of London. She has taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and at Seattle's Bastyr University. She was a coordinator for the American Dietetic Association's Manual of Clinical Dietetics and co-authored the nutrition classic Becoming Vegetarian (now in nine countries and three languages) and its companion volumes, Cooking Vegetarian and Becoming Vegan.

244 pages