Cooking through Cancer Treatment to Recovery: Easy, Flavorful Recipes to Prevent and Decrease Side Effects at Every Stage of Conventional Therapy

YUM! Whether it is you or your partner or a friend who has heard the dreaded diagnosis, here is a ray of sunshine to make the day brighter. There are a lot of books out there about cancer care and cooking, but how many treat food, which we take in all day, as a medical helpmate and a delicious friend? This Naturopath, Dr. Lisa Price and the nutritionist, Susan Gins, do a fabulous job of explaining (easily) why what we eat helps us be what we are.Thank heaven, they start with a shopping list which makes it all go easier. I just didn't have Liquid Aminos around.Delicious recipes, with full attention to the joy that comes from eating comfort foods in crisis. Not the mashed potatoes-and-gravy that will feed a cancer and make us rollicking ill afterward, but Bibimbap ( a lovely rice dish), Chili Paste Salmon,Turkey Florentine (which helps with fatigue, insomnia blood sugar regulation) and Eloise's Creole Gumbo. Every recipe is both coded, to tell what stage of treatment it best supports, and has a nice little sidebar to tell us Targeted Side Effects, vitamins and then, the calories and breakdown of all those lovelies (Carbs, Protein, etc.). There are good scientific health tips on every page.Nothing like a zucchini and Carrot Muffin to start your day, is there? How about Coconut "Ice cream" for that snack? Balsamic Blueberries, anyone?The organization is beautiful, with a quick-glance chart of recipes w/treatment phases and targeted side effects at the end of the book and a glossary of common foods and their nutrient content. Before long, I can make up my own recipes, because this is a teaching book, as well as a handy reference for those of us who wish to help someone with the big C. It is written with love and respect for my intelligence and , probably biggest of all, no easy "truths", just information carefully and lovingly offered to help us help ourselves when our bodies have failed us a bit. This will help the body and help each other, and so, ourselves. Thanks to these observant and brilliant women who are sharing my life by offering their knowledge and heart.

This book is not only perfect for one going through cancer treatment and recovery, but also for caretakers, or those wanting to understand how cancer treatment impacts our bodies and the nutrients needed to keep our immune systems optimal during a very traumatic time.After undergoing breast cancer treatment two years ago, with ongoing side effects, I intend to make every one of these recipes - and thankfully they are easy to follow because I tend to get lost in a kitchen. Also, the stress of cancer alone leaves us depleted, and too often the best intended recipes are simply too difficult when one is exhausted...not so with this book. The recipes are "user friendly" - and the information in the book is extremely comprehensive.People often ask me "What can I give my friend or family member who is going through cancer?" Some of the most well intended friends brought me cake, cookies, donuts, boxes of candies...things I couldn't eat, and yet accepted graciously. At times I even felt hurt that they didn't realize that my body didn't need more sugar, it needed nutrients!! So, this book is precisely the answer to the age old question of what to give a person who is ill, or in recovery. It shows sensitivity on behalf of the giver, AND it's practical!I absolutely recommend this book - and while I'm at it, I'll be buying a few extra copies to keep for those moments, when I hear the news, and just don't know what to say; because this book speaks volumes.

The media could not be loaded. Since I wrote the book, I'd like to note some of the unique features it has:1. 98% of the recipes are only 4 steps long2. Family and friends can cook food that is helpful to the recovery of the cancer patient to decrease side effects of treatment3. You don't have to have cancer to find the tasty, easy and nutritious recipes good for your health4. People going through cancer should not have to cook food that causes them more stress5. Having food to eat that improves health is empoweringWishing the best of health!

This cookbook offers many different recipes, vegan and regular diets, for cancer patients who are experiencing the common side effects of chemotherapy and for all stages of treatment.

This is an okay cook book but found it to be to much to read and not enough receipes. I found two receipes I like.

"Cooking through Cancer" is fine companion book to "The Anti-cancer Diet" by Khayat (see my review) for those who cook. We live in a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community), where cooking is no longer much of an issue. The book has a variety of recipes (some with pictures) to tempt a patient with a poor appetite, and to prevent and decrease side effects. I would have welcomed this book more when I was primary cook with my late wife. The appendix tabulates the recipes by treatment phase and side effect. It also includes a listing of food nutrient content, support resources, a bibliography and of course an index.I highly recommend these two books as a pair for anyone who must provide both caregiving and cooking for the household.

Bought this for my mom. it's Great! What I love: tells you HOW to read the book, support, why food is important in this journey, recipes highlight what's good for EVERY stage of cancer, HRT, radiation and chemo.... It's what my mom said appreciated the most. Each recipe also states what it targets: ex: nausea, fatigue, wound healing. Recipes are simple, some of the non dairy or gluten free items I got at whole foods or trader joes but everything Mostly are grocery chain items.

It phrasing was to American,and required foods I've never heard of,as a catering manager,I found it boring,not what I expected