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It's an excellent book, but to me, with the title "What to eat if you have cancer" is having a rather underexposed title. This as the first half of the book it's about how the body works and cancer, and the second half about loosing or gaining weight and what to eat. As the title to the Part I say: "The Body, Cancer, and Nutrition", and to the Part II, starting on side 155, "Diet Plans: Developing your Nutritional Therapy Regime".
But all over the writing in the book is excellent and highly informative, most of it also to persons that are not especially interested in learning about cancer. So to me it's a wrong title that it has on the front page and had the title for example been like the one I have written I probably would have been looking on the book more than 1 year earlier, instead of first looking and ordering one copy 3 weeks ago.
After receiving it I was highly impressed when looking into it as it looked good with the drawing which then showed up. In Amazon it's written that we can't se the sides 9 to 115, and 162 - 190. In the chapter 1, starting on side 3, "The Microscopic World Inside You", we are getting very good writing about how the body exists, the smallest part inside us, cells and so on. But especially in the following chapter, "Organs and Organ Systems", on s. 23 - 50, we besides the good and clearly writing also are getting 11 good helping drawings, containing many partial names, concerning the actual parts, and systems, in the body, about which we here are reading. And as the chapter title shows this is not especially concerning cancer.
And in chapter 3, "Cancer: When Good Cells Go Bad", we besides the good writing, are getting 2 drawings. Respectively with the first one showing the formation of neoplasm, that is how a cell starts making a tumor instead of dying as normal when it ought to, but instead starts making more equal copies of it self. And with the next drawing showing how tumors are passing through the membrane and into the blood for then moving to another position in the body.
But some other drawings, nearly the rest of drawings, which I also like much, are shown on the sides 93 - 110, in the chapters 6 and 7, respectively entitled "Lipids, Fats, and Cancer", and "Protein and Cancer". Here we are getting 9 small figures with molecule drawings. The first of these are good in helping to explain the composition of fatty acid which make the difference between saturated fatty acid, monounsaturated fatty acid and polyunsaturated fatty acid. Connected to the text about the difference which making some fats good, and some bad.
On side 53, in the part "Carcinogenesis: The Beginning of Cancer", there is a small, but important missing detail. Here is written about the female hormone estrogen, and that it is a cancer promoter in hormone-dependent cancer. But it would be more correct to inform that the Estrogen actual consists of E1, E2, and E3, and the last one, E3, Estriol is good, while the other two are bad. So if getting an unbalance, too much of the first two, then there is a chance for getting breast cancer. Or if there is an unbalance between Estrogen and Progesterone there also is the bigger chance of getting breast cancer. And if getting pills with estrogen, then get it having the name being either estrogen, or estriol, and not as a drug, (not being a natural pill), discovered by having a little bit different spelled name.
As I wrote in the start, the book is very useful for all persons who want to learn about the body, that is how it works, and why there exist good foods, and bad foods. But besides we also are getting much writing telling about how to loose or to gain in weight, and on the side 222 we have the BMI (Body Mass Index) Table. But when I was reading the text, I immediately started thinking about that in nearly all books we are missing the information telling that muscle use more calories than fat, but on side 264 it came that: "Since muscle tissue burn more calories than fat cells". More correctly - I think that it must have bin in one of the thin books written by Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D. I once read it - it's nearly 2 times more calories that the muscle is using, opposite to fat, when resting, as fat newer work. And I also recall it as being nearly 30 cal/hours for each pound of muscle opposite to only haft of this for each pound of fat. So we ought always to have this stated in connection to the BMI tables, and by explaining person calculation about what they can use in calories. So that we would start thinking about how two persons, having the same weights, can be using quite a different amount of calories when sitting and looking at TV.
Concerning the eating the book also is giving good information, and especially concerning fruits and vegetables, we are getting good and interesting details.
But again, an excellent book, with many interesting details, and easy to read, even as the first book being read for learning about the body.
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