The Cancer Recovery Healthy Exchanges Cookbook: More Than 175 Recipes for Delicious, Easy-To-Prepare Dishes Designed to Promote Cancer Prevention and

Make no mistake about it--this is a COOKBOOK, not a diet book. And none of the recipes are repeated from earlier books!JoAnna Lund's recipe books are wonderful for eating healthy, whether your goal is losing weight, lowering cholesterol, or recovering from cancer or other medical conditions. All of her recipes can be enjoyed by all members of the family, not just the person recovering from cancer. (For the previous reviewer to say that cancer patients don't need recipes that serve 4-6 people is ridiculous and even offensive! Cancer patients are family members, and JoAnna's easy, tasty recipes make it possible for all members of the family to eat together. They're even easy enough for most teenagers to make if Mom or Dad aren't feeling well one evening.) I own most of JoAnna's cookbooks and have used them primarily to lose weight and get healthy. The front section of all of her books contains information to be used if weight loss is your goal, or ignored if you're simply looking for healthy, easy, dishes to tempt a recovering patient back to the table. Each recipe also contains diabetic exchanges for anyone who needs that information. (If you're not diabetic, you just ignore it.)The heart of this book is the FOOD--please don't lose sight of that. Yes, the introduction is from a top cancer educator and provides some valuable insights if you're coping with that disease. But the recipes are for EVERYONE, and they're delicious.

I have been a subscriber to JoAnna Lunds newsletter every since it began publishing. I have all of her books,but this one strikes a chord close to my heart. As a volunteer with Hospice I know up front how important nutrition is with people undergoing treatment of any kind for cancer. JoAnna takes that into consideration and makes everyday "comfort food" have the most nutrition possible while not breaking your bank account. I have used this cookbook as a helper of sorts to families who are caregivers so they can sit down together as a family and eat the same dishes the patient does. If you only buy one of JoAnna's cookbooks (who can stop at one? They are all great!) please buy this one, everyone in the world today seems to have someone they love or that they work with or a neighbor or someone they go to church with that has had cancer in their family or just want to take better care to better of theirselves, this is the book for that.