Eating Your Way to Better Health: The Prostate Forum Nutrition Guide

I enjoyed reading this book and found it very usefull. Highly recomment to anyone.

Taken from the author's website prostateforum(dot)com: "This is a must-read book for prostate cancer patients and their families. Dr. Myers has taken the scientific approach to nutrition; emphasizing a diet that has been shown to slow prostate cancer. "The first four chapters of the book deal with: "What is known about the role diet plays in the biology of prostate cancer. "A list of nutritional supplements that may be of help to the prostate cancer patient. "Warnings about certain dietary practices and nutritional supplements that may fuel the growth of prostate cancer or harm your health in other ways. "Instructions and recipes to help you use nutritional information, intelligently on a daily basis." As a side comment I was shocked to see the book offered here for $92.51. If you go to the author's website, you can get it for $25.00!

This is a very unique book designed to inform and support persons recently diagnosed with PC, as well as help those who want to live a more healthy lifestyle. The plan includes excellent information on the foods that are powerful sources of phytonutrients and how these substances contribute to the process of healthful living. The information comes from one with years of experience in cancer research and those skilled in preparing healthful foods. The book walks you through the path toward better health. It contains excellent resources for further study.

The title makes this volume sound like one of the dozens (hundreds?) of "healthy eating" books on the market. The recipes in fact look very healthy and rather appetizing. However, the first half of the book is probably THE BEST explanation of prostate cancer and the known dietary influences on the disease that I've seen. Specific nutrients are considered in detail one after another, and the most current studies regarding each are carefully summarized and compared (it appears that virtually every significant study regarding the impact of nutrition on prostate cancer up to the publication date of the book is cited in the chapter notes). Dr. Myers is a well respected medical researched (formerly at NIH, and now at the University of Virginia), and writes carefully and clearly. He makes it clear that there are no known magic bullets, and builds a very convincing case for a balanced low fat, low calorie diet, emphasizing regular consumption of certain foods, with clear explantions of the rationale for each recommendation. Highly recommended.