The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery

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About The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery

Publisher Web Link: http://www.randomhouse.com/

In her new book, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen, Rebecca offers a book infused with both fantastic taste and meticulous science, utilizing delicious ingredients rich in the nutrients, minerals, and phyto-chemicals that people simply must have to thrive during treatment. Chock full of wisdom, experience, and comments from both Rebecca and a coterie of America’s foremost integrative oncologists, physicians, and cancer-wellness professionals, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen includes:

    * More than 150 healthy, mouth-watering, easy-to-find recipes that stimulate appetite and address treatment side-effects including fatigue, nausea, mouth and throat soreness, and low blood counts

    * The ‘Cancer Fighting Tool-Kit’: Everything caregivers and friends need to keep loved ones eating during treatment, including advice, gleaned directly from Rebecca’s practice with dozens of clients.

    * Vital advice from Rebecca and her experts on putting together a culinary support team

    * A ‘Culinary Pharmacy’ that reveals the peer-reviewed science behind every ingredient in the book

    * Numerous strategies for thriving during treatment, including using food to optimize treatment, important lifestyle choices that help patients stay energized, and food shopping, preparation, storage and serving tips.

Written in a warm, engaging, encouraging, style, Rebecca’s entertaining and informative prose helps people in treatment and their loved ones overcome their fear of cooking for someone dealing with cancer. Filled with humor, compassion, beautiful photography, and a wealth of useful information, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a great meal.

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About Rebecca Katz

Author Web Link: http://rebeccakatz.com/

A nationally-recognized expert on the role of food in supporting health during cancer treatment, Rebecca has a Masters of Science degree in Health and Nutrition Education, and received her culinary training from New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. As a consultant, speaker, teacher and chef, Rebecca works closely with patients, physicians, nurses, and wellness professionals to include the powerful tool of nutrition in their medical arsenal.

Rebecca is the Executive Chef for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s Food As Medicine and CancerGuides^® Professional Training Programs, which attracts the country’s top cancer wellness physicians, nurses, social workers, and researchers. She is also visiting chef and nutrition educator at Commonweal’s Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, which offers intensive self-care programs for cancer patients and their caregivers.

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The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery

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