Warming up to Living Foods
Author: Elysa Markowitz
A raw foods diet doesn't have to be cold. Living foods expert Elysa Markowitz shows how to warm raw foods and still preserve their vital enzymes. She includes recipes for dishes that are spicy, flavorful, and supremely good for you, many of which have been featured on her Los Angeles television show Elysa's Raw and Wild Food Show. A week-long menu planner will help you organize your ingredients so you'll have everything ready when you need it.
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Cancer Talk: Voices of Hope and Endurance from the Group Room, the World's Largest Cancer Support Group
Author: Selma R Schimmel
For the first time, Cancer Talk provides a support group in a book.
Research shows that cancer patients who attend support groups can survive longer and lead fuller lives than patients receiving medical treatment alone. Cancer Talk, based on "The Group Room®," the nation's only talk-radio cancer support show, brings hope, information, and inspiration to everyone affected by cancer. Show host Selma Schimmel, a cancer advocate and longtime survivor, has gathered the voices of cancer patients and survivors, family and friends, physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to create an invaluable guide to help you:
- Deal with the wide range of emotions a cancer diagnosis provokes
- Cope with relationships, intimacy, and physical changes
- Optimize the doctor-patient relationship and navigate treatment options
- Handle the side effects of treatment
- Understand legal, workplace, and insurance issues
- Live with and beyond cancer
Anyone whose life has been touched by cancer will find new support from the intimate and empowering voices of the only real experts out there—the people who live with cancer.
Library Journal
Terrified. Angry. Confused. Lost. Alone. All aptly describe one's reaction after a cancer diagnosis. Author Schimmel was diagnosed with breast cancer 16 years ago and felt that cancer patients needed more than the patronizing, often paternalistic attitude of some doctors. She founded Vital Options, a nationwide communications organization that offers information, support, and advocacy through a radio talk show, "The Group Room®." The words of cancer patients, family members, physicians, and therapists along with commentary from Schimmel comprises Cancer Talk. The book is divided into four main categories, "Handling the Medical Aspects of Cancer," "Dealing with Your Emotions," "The Legal and Social Aspects of Cancer," and "Beyond Cancer," and discusses cancer in young adults and children, the needs of caregivers, and negotiating the maze of managed care, among other issues. Each chapter ends with a bulleted list of things to do, and a resource list concludes the book. People undergoing cancer treatment and their families will find this (and its radio show sire) an invaluable source of information, advice, encouragement, and comfort. Highly recommended for public libraries and patient health collections. [The reviewer is no relation to coauthor Fox.--Ed.]--Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal" Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
USA Today - Katy Kelly
This worst thing about this book is that someday you will need it. You, or someone you care about, will be diagnosed with cancer. The best thing about htis book is that it will help. A lot. Cancer Talk is about hope, endurance and survival...There is no question that cancer is a difficult journey, but this book lets readers know they are not travelling alone.
Kirkus Reviews
Advice and support from those with cancer, based on "The Group Room," a talk-radio cancer support show. Schimmel, the show's host, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 28 (16 years ago), shortly after her mother's death from ovarian cancer. She and Fox (The Arthritis Cure, etc.) include advice from those with the disease, from their families and friends, from physicians and therapists—all of which is carefully selected and clearly presented, and all of which reflects Schimmel's down-to-earth approach. Her own diagnosis and treatment were delayed by poor medical care—it was then, she says, that she first understood the difference between being a passive patient and being an active medical consumer. As there were many cancer deaths in her family, "I had absolutely no role models for survival." Her goal here is not so much to give exact medical advice as to give some reassurance and "some sense of direction out of the haze." She succeeds, sometimes with pointers on getting the best medical care (having an advocate with you at all appointments; getting into a clinical trial), sometimes with support in negotiating fear, sadness, and grief. Schimmel compassionately offers help for those facing imminent mortality, including psychological support, with ideas for symptom and pain control. An up-to-date resource list is included. (Radio satellite tour)
