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Your Life In Your Hands, Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast CancerJane A. Plant, PH.D. By:Thomas Dunne Books (Imprint of St. Martian’s Press) 2001 PB 270
ISBN # 0-312-27561-7
Hard Cover $23.95
Review by Christina Francine
One out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer.
This book attempts to enlighten, equip, and help readers deal with either
breast cancer or the prevention of it. Professor Jane A. Plant gives her
personal story hoping to help other women and wake up the scientific and
medical communities.
She is the perfect candidate to write on this subject because Dr. Jane A.
Plant had this terrible disease herself and is one of Britain’s finest
scientists. This determined lady found a way to cure herself – something
the medical doctors couldn’t do.
The cancer eventually spread into her lymph system. Regular medicine hadn’t
helped and she was given three months to live. What could she do? Finally,
she decided to approach the cancer like she did most everything else, as a
scientist.
The tone of this account is one of concern and written in first person.
Plant goes into her personal analysis with cancer and the way she searched
for a cure. She explains about the discovering facts she found; one of
which why dairy products are bad and contribute to breast cancer, and how
she hunted vigorously for studies already conducted, but couldn’t find any.
Dr. Plant says:
“A good scientist will see thing a little differently from most people.
Customarily, scientists approach a new problem in five stages:
1.Gather existing information.
2.Produce new information.
3.Evaluate.
4.Propose a new hypothesis”
Her message is: Even advanced breast cancer can be overcome. “I know
because I’ve done it.” Diet and lifestyle modification is needed though.
Contents of the book:
Acknowledgements
Welcome
1.The Hot, The Boa Constrictor, and The Scientist
2.Cells Behaving Badly
3.The Third Strawberry
4.Rich Woman’s Disease
5.The Plant Program – The Food Factors
6.The Plant Program – The Lifestyle Factors
7.Reflections from West to East
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Dr. Plant supplies considerable help and information for her readers. She
provides recipes, advice (“If You Used To Do This…Now Do This”), graphs,
main plants to consume recommendations, main foods she never consumes, and
tons of assisting enlightenments.
Disturbing bits of knowledge Plant stumbled upon:
•The food industry will not supply funding to universities who don’t support
their products.
•The herbicides, Atrazine, a member of the s-triazine group, and most
widely used in the world have been shown to cause mammary tumors in high
doses to laboratory rats. Thus, consider organic products instead.
•“The System” has failed to protect us from, or even inform us of, many
avoidable risk factors implicated in breast and prostate cancer. Women must
rely on themselves. Become educated in what is best for your health.
•There are huge differences in the number of people who get breast and
prostate cancer between the Eastern and Western countries. It isn’t genetic.
When Eastern people adopt a Western lifestyle of eating, the rate of
breast and prostate cancer increases.
Who has said what about this book?
“Dr. Jane Plant provides a much-needed challenge
to the conventional paradigm in dealing with the
epidemic of breast cancer. This authorative,
well-researched but easily read text finally
provides a focus on the powerful science of
disease prevention. Here are the tools allowing
all women the ability to reduce their risk.”
--David perlmutter, M.D., director of the
Perlmitter Center, Naples, Florida.
“Your Life In Your Hands should be read by
every…woman wishing to avoid breast cancer and to
live to her fullest potential. The book is well
documented and easy to read. Your doctor should
be recommending it to you.”
--John McDougall, M.D., medical director of
the McDougall Program, St. Helena
Hospital, Napa Valley California.
Plant’s book is eye opening. After vast arrays of reading and research,
writing public-awareness articles, I’ve learned milk from cows and what is
added to it isn’t great for the human body.
I had a scare recently with something found on my mammogram. It turned out
not to be cancer, but it still was a slap of reality! Before reading plant’s
book my dietary habits were slowly changing for the better, but now at a
faster rate.  I drink soy milk, try to eat more fruits,
vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, fresh herbs, and take mineral and vitamin
supplements. My exercise program has been intense and beneficial for about
seven years, so no problem here.
Sometimes advice goes in one ear and out the other, but when given proven
medical research, accounts, and graphs, we finally start to pay attention.
I believe any woman or someone who cares about one will benefit from this
book. It could be life changing; definitely memorable and eye opening.
Readers will find they look at cow’s milk a whole new way. I highly
recommend this book.
For further awareness:
•Not Milk http://www.notmilk.com
*National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations http://www.nabco.org/
•Breast Cancer Action http://www.bcaction.org/
•Detailed Breast Cancer Risk Calculator http://www.halls.md/breast/risk.htm
•LiP Feature Not Milk: The USDA, Monsanto, and the U.S. Dairy Industry
•Botanical.com providing botanical information on the world wide web since
1995
•The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
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