Anticancer, A New Way of Life

by Servan-Schreiber, David

• ISBN13: 9780670020348
• ISBN10: 0670020346
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-04
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

The New York Timesbestseller takes us on an empowering journey and changes the way we think about fighting cancer David Servan-Schreiber’s story of his journey from cancer patient to health combines memoir with a clear scientific explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them. Anticancer is filled with easy to understand charts and diagrams and a sixteen-page color Anticancer Action” insert that enables readers to make small but essential changes in lifestyle and diet. Your body knows how to fight cancer, says Servan-Schreiber, and you have to help it with nutrition, physical exercise, stress management, and avoiding environmental toxins. Anticancer enables people living with cancer to adopt a proactive attitude to living, even thriving, with cancer and helps healthy people prevent it.

Author Biography

David Servan-Schreiber, MD , PhD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He is a founding member of the organization Doctors Without Borders and continues to work in international crisis intervention.

Table of Contents

One Story	p. 5
Escaping Statistics	p. 11
Danger and Opportunity	p. 17
Cancer's Weaknesses	p. 26
Breaking the News	p. 50
The Anticancer Environment	p. 54
Lessons of a Relapse	p. 90
The Anticancer Foods	p. 95
The Anticancer Mind	p. 131
Defusing Fear	p. 169
The Anticancer Body	p. 180
Learning to Change	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 199
Ten Precautions for Cell Phone Use	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 209
Notes	p. 215
Index	p. 245
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