Book Review
AntiCancer - A New Way of Life
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Sep 16, 2008 - 2:45:19 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - When David Servan-Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, his life changed. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness and the little-known workings of his body's natural cancerfighting capacities, and marshaling his own will to live, Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteenyear journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration and, finally, to health. Combining memoir, concise explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and drawing on both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer, Anticancer is revolutionary. It is a moving story of a doctor's inner and outer search for balance; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and compelling and cautionary in its proposal that cancer cells lie dormant in all of us-and that we all must care for the "terrain" in which they exist. Advocating a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer, Anticancer is a radical synthesis of science and personal experience, an inspiring personal journey, and certainly a guide to "a new way of life."

Anticancer tells us,

* Why the traditional Western diet creates the conditions for disease and how to develop a science-based anticancer diet

* How and why sugar and stress feed cancer and ways to achieve life balance and good nutrition to combat it

* Why the effects of helplessness and unhealed wounds affect our ability to restore health How to reap the benefits of exercise, yoga, and meditation

* How to minimize environmental toxins

* How to find the right blend of traditional and alternative health care

Author Bio
DAVID SERVAN-SCHREIBER, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Paris, France.

Reviews
"Enormously compelling evidence and arguments for participating in our own health by supporting our deep natural capacity for healing. Everybody should rcad this book and enact its simple but potentially lifesaving recommendations. David Scrvan-Schr'ciber speaks with a powerful voice from both personal experience with cancel' at a young age and from his life's calling as a physician and neuroscientist:"
--JON KABAT-ZINN, professor of medicine emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School; author of Full Catastrophe Living

"A mesmerizing, brilliant, astonishing, and well-documented journey detailing the extraordinary successes and remarkable failures of efforts to wrestle with cancer in the modern world,"
--DEVRA DAVIS, National Book Award finalist; author of The Secret History of the War on Cancer

Published by Viking Adult (Penguin Group)
September 2008;$25.95US/$30.95CAN; ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02034-8

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